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True Compass: A Memoir
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Author
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Edward M. Kennedy.
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Publisher
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Twelve
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.3
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6.3
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1.6
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ISBN
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9780446539258
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Pages/Publication Date
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532/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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20828
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Description
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The youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy came of age among siblings from whom much was expected. And though his life and political career at times seemed doomed to disappointment, Ted Kennedy came to be regarded as the lion of the U.S. Senate and the solid patriarch of the Kennedy dynasty. This autobiography, completed just before his death in 2009, speaks movingly of his brothers John and Robert and their influence on him; his years of struggle in the wake of their deaths; his marriage to the woman who changed his life, Victoria Reggie Kennedy; and his role in the major events of our time, from the civil rights movement to the election of Barack Obama. "A welcome addition to the political memoir bookshelf.... Kennedy devotes more than half of the book to the first half of his life—growing up as the youngest of his generation, gaining a political education while touring the western U.S. for Jack's presidential campaign in 1960, clashing with Lyndon Johnson over Vietnam, and the heartache of Jack and Bobby's assassinations. After a brief section on Chappaquiddick, Kennedy tends to the anecdotal when discussing his political career from clashing with Nixon over Supreme Court nominations to campaigning for Barack Obama.... When he was a child, Kennedy's father told him, 'You can have a serious life or a nonserious life.' He chose the former, and at the end, seems genuinely grateful not just for what that life gave him, but what it enabled him to do for others."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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