First Great Sorrow
My Years with Robert F. Kennedy
- Hardcover
324 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2026
Summary
An intimate political memoir set in Washington, D.C. and Hyannisport during the turbulent 1960s, offering history readers and Kennedy enthusiasts a rare first-person portrait of Robert F. Kennedy through the eyes of a young Senate staffer navigating ambition, power, and personal awakening.
“With First Great Sorrow, author Donna Chaffee has produced an inspiring tribute to a man for whom she worked and campaigned—Robert F. Kennedy. Her book is filled with fascinating, inside details of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798894410593 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Donna Chaffee |
| Publisher: | College Board,The,U.S. |
| Imprint: | College Board,The,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 324 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 520g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Donna Chaffee
Donna Chaffee was born and raised in Los Angeles. She attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she began working in Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s Capitol Hill office in 1965.
After transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, she remained connected to Kennedy’s political circle and later volunteered during his 1968 presidential campaign. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Political Science and went on to spend more than twenty years working as a financial manager for Los Angeles County.
In retirement, Chaffee has traveled to more than seventy countries and become actively involved in wildlife conservation efforts in Africa, including volunteer work at a cheetah sanctuary in Namibia. She also runs a large online community dedicated to protecting cheetahs.
Her previous novel, Overboard, was a quarterfinalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award competition.
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