True compass : a memoir /
Kennedy, Edward M. 1932-2009.
True compass : a memoir / Edward M. Kennedy. - First edition. - x, 532 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The torch -- Family. Safe harbor ; No crying in this house; Wartime London ; Boarding school boy ; The Harvard screwup -- Brotherhood. Kennedy for President ; Becoming a politician ; The New Frontier ; Drinks with the Senator ; 1963 ; Falling to earth ; Thunder ; Bobby -- On my own. the shock of silence ; The hospital ; Nixonian radicals ; Backlash in Boston ; Sailing against the wind ; The Reagan years ; The family business -- Renewal. the woman who changed my life ; Campaigning for political survival ; The Clinton years ; The living Rose ; Senator ; Perseverance.
In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events.
9780446539258 (regular edition) 9780446557993 (large print edition)
2009931859
Kennedy, Edward M. 1932-2009.
United States. Congress. Senate --Biography.
Legislators--United States--Biography.
E840.8 .K35 / A3 2009
True compass : a memoir / Edward M. Kennedy. - First edition. - x, 532 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The torch -- Family. Safe harbor ; No crying in this house; Wartime London ; Boarding school boy ; The Harvard screwup -- Brotherhood. Kennedy for President ; Becoming a politician ; The New Frontier ; Drinks with the Senator ; 1963 ; Falling to earth ; Thunder ; Bobby -- On my own. the shock of silence ; The hospital ; Nixonian radicals ; Backlash in Boston ; Sailing against the wind ; The Reagan years ; The family business -- Renewal. the woman who changed my life ; Campaigning for political survival ; The Clinton years ; The living Rose ; Senator ; Perseverance.
In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events.
9780446539258 (regular edition) 9780446557993 (large print edition)
2009931859
Kennedy, Edward M. 1932-2009.
United States. Congress. Senate --Biography.
Legislators--United States--Biography.
E840.8 .K35 / A3 2009