Broken Glory

Pub date is June 5, 2018, the fiftieth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, which will be the focal point for celebrations of RFK's life and legacy both online and in the media that have already begun with the publication of two new biographies in 2017.This work's hybrid mashup of a gra [...]
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Pub date is June 5, 2018, the fiftieth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, which will be the focal point for celebrations of RFK's life and legacy both online and in the media that have already begun with the publication of two new biographies in 2017.This work's hybrid mashup of a graphic biography, epic poem, and conspiracy-theory reconstruction of the assassination gives it a novelty value that should draw attention.The 100 stark pen-and-ink drawings provide a graphic accompaniment that builds to a surreally filmic climax in the scenes leading up to RFK's murder at the Ambassador Hotel on the night he won the California primary and seemed poised to win the presidency.Ed Sanders's iconic association with the counterculture of the sixties as a poet, publisher, and friend of the Beats, antiwar activist, founder of the Peace Eye Bookstore, and founding member of The Fugs and the Yippies gives his voice special authority in writing about the tumultuous decade and the pivotal year that was 1968.