He was Good Bobby who as his brother Ted eulogized him saw wrong and tried to right it . . . saw suffering and tried to heal it. And Bad Bobby the ruthless and manipulative bully of countless conspiracy theories. Thomas s unvarnished but sympathetic and fair-minded portrayal is packed with new details about Kennedy s early life and his behind-the-scenes machinations including new revelations about the 1960 and 1968 presidential campaigns the Cuban Missile Crisis and his long struggles with J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson.