The Book Prize Index

Robert Kennedy and His Times

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

A biography of the Senator who was assassinated in 1968, stressing the public and personal forces and events that shaped his life.

BiographyBiography · high confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Kennedy, robert f., 1925-1968 -> BiographyPresidential Biography

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for Biography and AutobiographyMajor1979Co-winnerSecondary source
National Book Award for Biography PaperbackMajor1980FinalistSecondary source
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This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    • Robert Kennedy92%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The biography stresses public and personal forces and events that shaped Robert Kennedy’s life.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.