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ReviewNon-Fiction
An Unfinished Love Story — Doris Kearns Goodwin on her husband’s Kennedy-era world
...She then got up, and, Bobby holding her by the arm, walked out. The rest of us stood there for a moment, weeping.”...
April 9, 2024
Edward Luce
The paranoid style in American politics
...Which leaves an opening for the likes of RFK Jr....
June 7, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewBiography and memoir
Morgenthau by Andrew Meier — power, privilege and the making of modern America
...Henry Jr had dinner with FDR the night before he died, and Bob was with Bobby Kennedy when he learnt John F Kennedy had been shot....
September 29, 2022
The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2022
Best theatre shows of 2022
...It focuses on the barbed late-night TV debates in 1968 between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch-conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr, which catapulted the struggling ABC network...
December 28, 2022
ReviewTheatre
Five stars for Best of Enemies, a scintillating, perfectly-timed play
...In this case it’s 1968 and the launch of a series of late-night television debates between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr....
December 1, 2022
ReviewTheatre
Best of Enemies — James Graham’s gripping culture-war drama
...In the political uproar and shaking certainties, the US television network ABC tries to boost poor ratings with a series of late-night debates between arch-conservative William F Buckley Jr and maverick...
December 10, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
The Weekend Essay
From the box to the bubble: what happened to festive TV?
...When Bobby Duffy was growing up in Essex, the question of what to watch on television at Christmas was an easy one. His parents decided. “We had one telly — and you watched it or not.”...
December 24, 2021
Person in the News
Joe Biden: the new president seeks to heal a divided US
...Busts of civil rights activists Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks and labour leader César Chavez sit near his political hero Bobby Kennedy, and a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt has replaced Mr Trump’s choice...
January 22, 2021
FT Magazine
The fight to overcome vaccine hesitancy among African Americans
...The group, which was founded by Robert F Kennedy Jr, son of the late Bobby Kennedy, has also secured the support of the Nation of Islam, the religious and political group which brought Malcolm X, the 1960s...
February 24, 2021
ObituaryMusic
Nancy Sinatra Snr, Frank’s first wife, 1917-2018
...Nancy’s daughters Nancy Jr and Tina survive her (her son Frank Jr died in 2016). She never had another husband....
July 20, 2018
Life & Arts
Wildwood, New Jersey: the blue-collar riviera
...They would spend days on the beach and boardwalk, and evenings watching clean-cut rockers like Bobby Rydell and Bill Haley, who first played “Rock Around the Clock” at Wildwood’s HofBrau Hotel in 1954....
August 24, 2018
UK economy
‘Black Power’ exhibition opens at London’s Tate Modern
...“Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” takes 1963 — when Martin Luther King, Jr led the March on Washington and delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech amid social unrest — as its starting point...
July 13, 2017
Top 10 films of 2017
Jackie: a piercingly intelligent film of kitsch but no corn
...Peter Sarsgaard’s Bobby Kennedy is a soft-spoken Machiavel with snake-alert eyes. Greta Gerwig is shyly, jealously protective as Jackie’s friend/PA....
January 19, 2017
FT SeriesBest of House & Home 2017
Angola 3 inmate: from solitary cell to centre of the community
...The Black Panthers took a different stance to the peaceful protests of their contemporaries, such as Martin Luther King Jr, and believed in the use of defensive violence....
September 28, 2017
Edward Luce
Why Cleveland will be haunted by the ghosts of Chicago 1968
...In the build-up to that year’s Democratic convention Lyndon Johnson, the US president, dropped out of the race, assassins’ bullets killed Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and many of America’s inner...
April 10, 2016
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
UK general election
Miliband draws on Obama blueprint in UK general election campaign
...Some see echoes of Bobby Kennedy — overshadowed by his more charismatic older brother JFK — who sought to be a champion of the dispossessed....
April 24, 2015
Life & Arts
Sinatra’s way
...Overblown acclamations mount up, the literary equivalent of bobby-soxer fervour....
December 11, 2015
Fund management
Movers & shakers: March 9
...Bobby Ross Bostic Jr has joined Vontobel Asset Management as a senior relationship manager for Australia and New Zealand....
March 8, 2015
FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
Shale oil gluts, 1980s Dynasty and Dallas edition
...Bobby spends the rest of the ep investigating this possibility. He’s got his work cut out for him as JR’s machinations are also pretty hard to keep track of....
December 8, 2014
FT Magazine
Interview: Steve McQueen on telling the truth in Hollywood
...In 1997’s Deadpan, a reproduction of a scene from Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr, he turned comedic homage into something more sinister and dangerous....
October 3, 2014
FT MagazineGillian Tett
The ducks are coming home to roost
...And though people such as Kennedy – a daughter of Bobby Kennedy, and a human rights activist – are now campaigning to introduce a “farmworker fair labor practices act”, it will not be an easy fight....
May 17, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Simon Schama on The Letters of John F. Kennedy, edited by Martin W. Sandler
...The Boston pols – Kenneth O’Donnell and Larry O’Brien, who had been JFK’s political myrmidons and hatchet brigade and who, like Bobby, scarcely bothered to hide their contempt for the new president, the...
November 15, 2013
The FT ViewWorld
Happy in adversity
...As Bobby Kennedy said in 1968, the cold calculator of gross national product “does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play....
February 28, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
...Bobby Kennedy has been shot but is not yet dead....
October 28, 2011
World
Mortgage mis-sales identified
...Other claims markets have become saturated, says director Bobby Kennedy, who suggests mortgage misselling will become the next big area....
April 1, 2011

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