6/20/2023 0 Comments Catching the Wind by Neal GablerThe last and by most contemporary accounts the least of the Kennedys, a lightweight. Though he is often portrayed as a reckless hedonist who rode his father's fortune and his brothers' coattails to a Senate seat at the age of thirty, the Ted Kennedy in Catching the Wind is one the public seldom saw-a man both racked by and driven by insecurity, a man so doubtful of himself that he sinned in order to be redeemed. It is at once a human drama, a history of American politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and a study of political morality and the role it played in the tortuous course of liberalism. Catching the Wind is the first volume of Neal Gabler's magisterial two-volume biography of Edward Kennedy. NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - "One of the truly great biographies of our time."-Sean Wilentz, New York Times bestselling author of Bob Dylan in America and The Rise of American Democracy "A landmark study of Washington power politics in the twentieth century in the Robert Caro tradition."-Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of American Moonshot The epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy-an immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality.
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