Ted Kennedy : a life /
Farrell, John A.
Ted Kennedy : a life / John A. Farrell. - 738 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 605-707) and index.
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.
"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"--
9780525558071 0525558071
2021060432
Kennedy, Edward M. 1932-2009.
United States. Congress. Senate --Biography.
Legislators--United States--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States--Politics and government--1989-
Biographies.
Ted Kennedy : a life / John A. Farrell. - 738 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 605-707) and index.
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.
"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"--
9780525558071 0525558071
2021060432
Kennedy, Edward M. 1932-2009.
United States. Congress. Senate --Biography.
Legislators--United States--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States--Politics and government--1989-
Biographies.