Michael R. Fischbach is professor of history at Randolph-Macon College. His books include The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left (2019); Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color (2018); and Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2003).

I Did It for My Country examines the intriguing story of a troubled Palestinian refugee, Sirhan Sirhan. Tracing Sirhan’s American journey in the 1960s, Michael R. Fischbach asks probing questions and delivers convincing answers. This fine book lucidly demonstrates how the 1948 Israel-Palestine conflict impacted Sirhan Sirhan’s motives, the life of Bobby Kennedy, and American history.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. The Nakba and the Young Refugee2. The American Dream?3. Kennedy and the Angry Palestinian4. Sirhan on Trial5. Violence and Trauma6. An Arab Connection?7. Attempts to Politicize the Assassination8. Depoliticization of the Assassination9. The Palestinian Embrace of Sirhan10. Political Prisoner?Conclusion: EchoesAcknowledgmentsA Note on AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

Michael R. Fischbach is professor of history at Randolph-Macon College. His books include The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left (2019); Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color (2018); and Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2003).

I Did It for My Country examines the intriguing story of a troubled Palestinian refugee, Sirhan Sirhan. Tracing Sirhan’s American journey in the 1960s, Michael R. Fischbach asks probing questions and delivers convincing answers. This fine book lucidly demonstrates how the 1948 Israel-Palestine conflict impacted Sirhan Sirhan’s motives, the life of Bobby Kennedy, and American history.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. The Nakba and the Young Refugee2. The American Dream?3. Kennedy and the Angry Palestinian4. Sirhan on Trial5. Violence and Trauma6. An Arab Connection?7. Attempts to Politicize the Assassination8. Depoliticization of the Assassination9. The Palestinian Embrace of Sirhan10. Political Prisoner?Conclusion: EchoesAcknowledgmentsA Note on AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

Michael R. Fischbach is professor of history at Randolph-Macon College. His books include The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left (2019); Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color (2018); and Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2003).

I Did It for My Country examines the intriguing story of a troubled Palestinian refugee, Sirhan Sirhan. Tracing Sirhan’s American journey in the 1960s, Michael R. Fischbach asks probing questions and delivers convincing answers. This fine book lucidly demonstrates how the 1948 Israel-Palestine conflict impacted Sirhan Sirhan’s motives, the life of Bobby Kennedy, and American history.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. The Nakba and the Young Refugee2. The American Dream?3. Kennedy and the Angry Palestinian4. Sirhan on Trial5. Violence and Trauma6. An Arab Connection?7. Attempts to Politicize the Assassination8. Depoliticization of the Assassination9. The Palestinian Embrace of Sirhan10. Political Prisoner?Conclusion: EchoesAcknowledgmentsA Note on AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex