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Title:
Ted Kennedy : a life
Publication Date:
2022
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Press, 2022.

©2022
Physical Description:
738 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780525558071
Abstract:
"Ted Kennedy is a biography of one of modern America's most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by the biographer who covered Kennedy closely for many years"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The last of the Kennedy boys -- High hopes -- If his name was Edward Moore -- The new frontier -- More of us than trouble -- Eddie and Robbie -- Loyalties -- A senator to be reckoned with -- Robert's time -- To sail beyond ... the western stars -- Wildness -- Chappaquiddick -- Inquest -- Unlikely savior -- Bubble and toil and trouble -- A fortuitous preoccupation -- A dramatic public proceeding of historic proportions -- Health cares -- ROAR -- Deacon -- The cause of the common man -- Reagan -- Vehemence and vitriol -- Robert Bork's America -- Relapse -- A different kind of Democrat -- Sweet Jack Falstaff -- Catskinning -- Ireland -- Troubled waters -- Fortunate sons -- The fires of sunset.
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Language:
English
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