TY - BOOK AU - Farrell,John A. TI - Ted Kennedy: a life SN - 9780525558071 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Press KW - Kennedy, Edward M. KW - United States KW - Congress KW - Senate KW - Biography KW - Legislators KW - Politics and government KW - 1945-1989 KW - 1989- KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- ER -