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Gabler, Neal.
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Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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Gabler, Neal.
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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Against
the
wind
:
Edward
Kennedy
and the
rise
of
conservatism
[
1976-2009
] / Neal Gabler.
by
Gabler, Neal.
Crown, 2022.
Call #:
973.92 K351g
Subjects
Kennedy
,
Edward
M. (
Edward
Moore), 1932-2009.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
ISBN:
9780593238622 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Edward
Kennedy
and the
rise
of
conservatism
[
1976-2009
]
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxviii, 1227 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Dates in title from cover.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"'
Against
the
Wind
' completes Neal Gabler's magisterial biography of Ted
Kennedy
, but it also unfolds the epic, tragic story of the fall of liberalism and the destruction of political morality in America. With Richard Nixon having stilled the liberal
wind
that once propelled
Kennedy
's--and his fallen brothers'--political crusades, Ted
Kennedy
faced a lonely battle. As Republicans pressed Reaganite dogmas of individual freedom and responsibility and Democratic centrists fell into line,
Kennedy
was left as the most powerful voice legislating on behalf of those society would neglect or punish: the poor, the working class, and African Americans. Gabler shows how the fault lines that cracked open in the wake of the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam were intentionally widened by
Kennedy
's Republican rivals to create a moral vision of America that stood in direct opposition to once broadly shared commitments to racial justice and economic equality. Yet even as he fought this shift, Ted
Kennedy
's personal moral failures in this era--the endless rumors of his womanizing and public drunkenness and his bizarre behavior during the events that led to rape accusations
against
his nephew William
Kennedy
Smith--would be used again and again to weaken his voice and undercut his claims to political morality. Tracing
Kennedy
's life from the wilderness of the Reagan years through the compromises of the Clinton era, from his rage
against
the craven cruelty of George W. Bush to his hope that Obama would deliver on a lifetime of effort on behalf of universal health care, Gabler unfolds
Kennedy
's heroic legislative work
against
the backdrop of a nation grown lost and fractured. In this outstanding conclusion to the saga that began with 'Catching the
Wind
,' Neal Gabler offers his inimitable insight into a man who fought to keep liberalism alive when so many were determined to extinguish it. '
Against
the
Wind
' sheds new light both on a revered figure in the American Century and on America's current existential crisis."--Goodreads.
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