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Ted Kennedy : a life / John A. Farrell.

by Farrell, John A. (John Aloysius)

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Penguin Press, c2022.

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-

9780525558071 (hc.)

738 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

"'An enthralling and groundbreaking new biography of one of modern America's most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by an award-winning biographer who covered Kennedy closely for many years. John A. Farrell's magnificent biography of Edward M. Kennedy is the first single-volume life of the great figure since his death. Farrell's long acquaintance with the Kennedy universe and the acclaim accorded his previous books -- including his New York Times-bestselling biography of Nixon, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize -- helped garner him access to a remarkable range of new sources, including Kennedy's personal diary and his private confessions to members of his family in the days that followed the accident on Chappaquiddick. Farrell is, without question, one of America's greatest political biographers and a storyteller of deep wisdom and empathy. His book does full justice to this famously epic and turbulent life of almost unimaginable tragedy and triumph. As the fourth son of the close-knit but fiercely competitive Kennedy clan, little Teddy was almost an afterthought, the runt of the litter. Expelled from Harvard University for cheating, he was a fun-loving playboy who nevertheless served his brothers loyally and effectively. But when he was elected to the United State Senate at the age of thirty to fill his brother Jack's seat, something unecpected happened: he found his home and his calling there.Over time, Ted Kennedy would build arguably the most significant senatorial career in American history. His life was buffeted by heartbreak: the violent deaths of his three older brothers, his own terrible plane crash, his children's bouts with cancer, and the hideous self-inflicted wounds of Chappaquiddick and stretches of drunking and womanizing that caused irreparable damage on an already fragile first marriage. Those wounds scarred Ted deeply but also tempered his character, and eventually, he embarked on a run as legislator, party elder, and paterfamilias of the Kennedy family that would change America for the better. John A. Farrel bring us the man as he was, in strength and weakness, his profound but complicated inheritance and his vital legacy, as only a great biographer can do. Without the story this book tells, no understanding of modern America can be complete."--Jacket.

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