Fifty years after Robert Kennedy’s landmark book The Enemy Within, UW-Parkside associate professor of history Edward R. Schmitt has published his own book about Kennedy, President of the Other America: Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty, which examines what was perhaps Kennedy’s signature issue. During his 1968 presidential run, Kennedy spoke tirelessly about the nation’s underserved, at a time when poverty took a backseat to the other issues of the day. Schmitt speaks about the book for free tonight.
Edward R. Schmitt
Tonight @ Boswell Book Co., 7 p.m.
