In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal sto
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English Pages x, 532 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) Year 2009
Table of contents :
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.