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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. TRUE COMPASS The youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose... read more
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Prologue: The Torch 2008. It was on the sunny spring day of Tuesday, May 20, 2008, that I emerged from a medicated drowsiness in a Bostom hospital bed and looked up into the face of a doctor who explained to me in a somber way that I was about to die, and that I had best begin getting my affairs in order and preparing my friends and family for the end.
Table of Contents
Prologue The Torch
PART ONE: Family
Chapter 1: Safe Harbor
Chapter 2: No Crying in This House
Chapter 3: Wartime London
Chapter 4: Boarding School Boy
Chapter 5: The Harvard Screwup
PART TWO: Brotherhood
Chapter 6: Kennedy for President
Chapter 7: Becoming a Politician
Chapter 8: The New Frontier
Chapter 9: Drinks with the Senator
Chapter 10: 1963
Chapter 11: Falling to Earth
Chapter 12: Thunder
Chapter 13: Bobby
PART THREE: On My Own
Chapter 14: The Shock of Silence
Chapter 15: The Hospital
Chapter 16: Nixonian Radicals
Chapter 17: Backlash in Boston
Chapter 18: Sailing Against the Wind
Chapter 19: The Reagan Years
Chapter 20: The Family Business
PART FOUR: Renewal
Chapter 21: The Woman Who Changed My Life
Chapter 22: Campaigning for Political Survival
Chapter 23: The Clinton Years
Chapter 24: The Living Rose
Chapter 25: Senator
Chapter 26: Perseverance
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
Authors & Contributors
- Edward M. Kennedy (Author)
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