PositiveThe Wall Street Journal\"In his insightful and well-crafted Kennedy and King, Steven Levingston attempts to bring greater clarity to these questions, illuminating the stories of both men and their complicated relationship during a tumultuous era ... The arc of Kennedy’s moral evolution as presented by Mr. Levingston is perhaps a bit too pat. Kennedy’s eventual (though still tempered) embrace of the black freedom struggle may have been a legitimate moral conversion spurred by King and others, or it may have been a political calculation based on the idea that the era of Southern segregationists was waning. The full picture is surely more complicated and less knowable than Mr. Levingston suggests ... At a time when cynicism about our political system abounds, Mr. Levingston’s story reminds us that outsiders can prod those in power toward progress and reform.\
