Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy is an American lawyer and author. He is the 9th child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
He began his law career in July 1992 by serving for 3 years as an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia. He co-founded the Urban Ecology Institute at Boston College, where he taught in the Biology and English Departments.
In a campaign covered by Boston media and the New York Times, Kennedy would run briefly for the house seat vacated by Democrat Joe Moakley in 2001, but he would withdraw after a shaky start. He is currently writing a history of the Second World War in the Pacific for Simon & Schuster. His wife Vicki was a Cabot Fellow and taught for several years as a Fellow at Harvard College. Vicki is now teaching at Loyola Marymount.
He wrote the book called ?Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy and the Words That Inspired Him?.
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