Two hundred thousand American soldiers at war with troop surges, rising to half a million. A recording at the University of Texas, 14 dead and wounded thirty others leave. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the Tet offensive in Vietnam, the rise of Eugene McCarthy. A country with the spirit of angry youth, who is not only felt in America, but most of the world.

Sounds like a familiar story? E 'was forty years ago and still"The politics of war and the politics of the grip of a paranoid nation.

The shining light that the nation was hoping that was before his time magazine photographer Bill Eppridge and the life was the excitement and opportunities that Robert Kennedy brought the country into "A Time for harvesting was terminated"

The book begins with an introduction by the great writer and journalist Pete Hamill. Pete was a friend of Robert Kennedy and persuaded him to run for office. He informed theReader with the start of the campaign and details of the night of joy at winning the primaries in California and remembers the chant "We want Bobby, Bobby, who we want," Sirhan Sirhan as he entered the light, creating a dark chapter in the history of these peoples .

Bill Eppridge shares his story as it was a picture of Bobby, as he had a cigar in Air Force A smoked during President Lyndon B. Johnson 's campaign tour of the north-east. This was the first time, a photographer for Life has been able to documentthe entire journey of the President of the United States. Says many images, many with captions. I was surprised, from my hometown of Everett, Washington, with a photographer since then see Everett Daily Herald, as he begins a picture of Robert.

The book is almost two hundred pages and is filled with many photos, which were never published. Bill's wife was cleaning out some boxes and ran more than 2,000 photographs - in closed boxes - which were sentto him, when Life magazine folded in 1972. Among them were 500 photos of Kennedy from his post.

Many of the images and cover a third party, and Bill was able to so many wonderful moments of Kennedy interacting with people of his convertible, he insisted that collects, too. Along with pictures of faces scattered among the crowd in his speeches.

Particularly interesting is the contact card that included the scene in the ballroom, just before the shooting and immediately afterwards with theinfamous photo company head busboy Juan Romero Kennedy. Parties Bill these last moments, when he declared that frame by frame, what he saw and recorded on film.

Those of us who do not receive enough to understand the politics of the sixties, a great visual history lesson. I came away with a sense of how to be a photo-journalist was with the access at a time easier. Where everything is not as polished and perfect in every detail. Where the worldwas a crazy time like today, but the hope was only a choice.