RFK Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream

By: Jerry Oppenheimer

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

From New York Times best-selling author Jerry Oppenheimer comes a sensational biography of the son of the legendary senator and troubled standard bearer of America's most fabled political dynasty. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., inherited his assassinated father's piercing blue eyes and Brahmin style, earning a reputation as the nation's foremost environmental activist and lawyer - the "toxic avenger" - battling corporate polluters. But in this, the most revelatory portrait ever of a Kennedy, Oppenheimer places Bobby, Jr., leader of the third generation of America's royal family, under a journalistic microscope. Based on scores of exclusive, candid on-the-record interviews, public and private records, and correspondence, Jerry Oppenheimer paints a balanced, objective portrait of this virtually unaccounted-for scion of the Kennedy dynasty. Like his slain father, the iconic senator and presidential hopeful, RFK, Jr., was destined for political greatness. Why it never happened is revealed in this first-ever biography of him.

©2015 Jerry Oppenheimer (P)2015 Macmillan Audio

narrator was incredibly smirking and gleeful for tragedies

I thought overall this book was snarky and very vindictive. I'm not that crazy about the Kennedy's, but this was overkill. No pun intended.

No sugar coating this one!

I’ve enjoyed this book, however I’m not giving it 5 stars due to some errors in the William Kennedy Smith portion, about his rape trial.
First off, I wouldn’t take any information about anything at all from that psycho Skakel cousin on psycho Ethel’s side. But more so, another said that Willie did have sex with this woman, “forced or not”
Well, if the author watched any of the trial he would know that if he had sex with her is not in question. He admits it on the stand. I have got to say, I was convinced by the defense, so was the jury.
I do not think this was another Chappequiddik.

Confirmation of an adult spoiled brat!

What did you like best about RFK Jr.? What did you like least?

Tells what everyone knows but is afraid to say out loud due to the "Kennedy repercussions". Entitled from birth, raised to be a selfish, self serving spoiled adult leave a trail of destruction everywhere he goes and sees nothing wrong.

Would you recommend RFK Jr. to your friends? Why or why not?

I would but why spend money to confirm what you already know?

What about Holter Graham’s performance did you like?

I liked it. Tried to represent the book accurately.

An interesting book about an uninteresting subject

Very well written and well researched biography. Unfortunately, the subject is a very uninteresting and uncompelling fellow, who really didn't merit an entire book devoted to him.

a most unprepossessing biography subject

Much is made of the opportunities and adoration which the Kennedy family enjoy (or are subjected to) simply because of who they are. The same holds true for this book - it is unlikely to have been written if the subject had been an everyday Joe Blow. Some sympathy must attach to RFK Jr for the extraordinary series of tragedies which have blighted his life and family, and his genetic inheritance boded ill from the start, but I just found 'Bobby' to be a big bore. The author has put it together in a readable somewhat gossipy style, and the narrator does a fine job with the material, but from about the halfway point I was looking forward to the end. Sex, drugs, and irresponsible behaviour, even when attached to a famous name, are not enough to carry a full-length biography.

You need a high tolerance for this one.

I felt like I needed a shower half way through this book. Nothing to be gained by this story. Not even a cautionary tale. Just a trash heap of a train wreck of a life.

Shocked

The bad portrayal of RFK Jr, I just don't understand the animosity. Mistakenly took this book for biography, but it's very dark

The back and forth between good and bad.

Oppenheimer seems to be the type to like to just dig up dirt because it's more entertaining. but then again, it was pretty entertaining. I would like to know more his good side, if there is any.

This book is awful!

This book is gigantic waste of time. Poorly written, all gossip and innuendo...save your money!

Really terrible book

This is a snarky, lightweight author who can't even get the date of JFK's assassination right. One crumb of gossip after another. Poorly researched and dependent on rumor and hearsay. He is also clearly biased against gays.
The narrator is also sarcastic and no fun to hear. Not even one star! I returned it.