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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Gabler, Neal.     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-     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gabler, Neal.       by title:      Catching the wind : ...       by call number:      973.92 K351g     Search the Web     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-       MARC Display

Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour / Neal Gabler. by Gabler, Neal. Crown, 2020. 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:  9780307405449 (hc.) Alternate title:  Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xxxvi, 887 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages [827]-841) and index. Summary:  "In the tradition of the works of Robert Caro and Taylor Branch, Catching the Wind is the first volume of Neal Gabler's magisterial two-volume biography of Edward Kennedy. It is at once a human drama, a history of American politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and a study of political morality and the role it played in the tortuous course of liberalism. Though he is often portrayed as a reckless hedonist who rode his father's fortune and his brothers' coattails to a Senate seat at the age of thirty, the Ted Kennedy in Catching the Wind is one the public seldom saw -- a man both racked by and driven by insecurity, a man so doubtful of himself that he sinned in order to be redeemed. The last and by most contemporary accounts the least of the Kennedys, a lightweight. he lived an agonizing childhood, being shuffled from school to school at his mother's whim, suffering numerous humiliations -- including self-inflicted ones -- and being pressed to rise to his brothers' level. He entered the Senate with his colleagues' lowest expectations, a show horse, not a workhorse, but he used his "ninth-child's talent" of deference to and comity with his Senate elders to become a promising legislator. And with the deaths of his brothers John and Robert, he was compelled to become something more: the custodian of their political mission."--From publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 973.92 K351g Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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