TY - BOOK AU - Kennedy,Edward M. TI - True compass: a memoir SN - 9780446539258 (regular edition) AV - E840.8 .K35 A3 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York, NY PB - Twelve KW - Kennedy, Edward M. KW - United States KW - Congress KW - Senate KW - Biography KW - Legislators N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -