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008			090926s2009 nyu db 001 0 eng d
020			_a9780446557993 (large print ed.)
020			_a0446557994 (large print ed.)
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100	1		_aKennedy, Edward M. _q(Edward Moore), _d1932-2009. _921090
245	1	0	_aTrue compass : _h[text (large print)] : _ba memoir / _cEdward M. Kennedy.
250			_aLarge print ed.
260			_aNew York, N.Y. : _bTwelve _cc2009.
300			_a732 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_aThe youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, he came of age among siblings from whom much was expected. As a young man, he played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother John F. Kennedy, recounted here in loving detail. In 1962 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he began a fascinating political education and became a legislator. In this historic memoir, Ted Kennedy takes us inside his family, re-creating life with his parents and brothers and explaining their profound impact on him. For the first time, he describes his heartbreak and years of struggle in the wake of their deaths. Through it all, he describes his work in the Senate on the major issues of our time--civil rights, Vietnam, Watergate, the quest for peace in Northern Ireland--and the cause of his life: improved health care for all Americans, a fight influenced by his own experiences in hospitals. His life has been marked by tragedy and perseverance, a love of family, and an abiding faith. There have been controversies, too, and Kennedy addresses them with unprecedented candor. At midlife, embattled and uncertain if he would ever fall in love again, he met the woman who changed his life, Victoria Reggie Kennedy. Facing a tough reelection campaign against an aggressive challenger named Mitt Romney, Kennedy found a new voice and began one of the great third acts in American politics, sponsoring major legislation, standing up for progressive principles, and making the pivotal endorsement of Barack Obama for president. Hundreds of books have been written about the Kennedys. True Compass will endure as the definitive account from a member of America's most heralded family, an inspiring legacy to readers and to history, and a deeply moving story of a life like no other
600	1	0	_aKennedy, Edward M. _q(Edward Moore), _d1932-2009. _921090
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bCongress. _bSenate _vBiography. _913589
650		0	_aLegislators _zUnited States _vBiography. _95968
650		0	_aLarge type books. _93808
655		7	_aMemoirs. _912987
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