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Author Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.

Title True compass : a memoir / Edward M. Kennedy.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Twelve, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.922 K381Bk 2009    ---  Available
 Eureka Non-Fiction  92 Kennedy    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Biography  BIO Kennedy    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 532 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [512]-514) and index.
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.
Summary 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.
Source NBK 9/9 PPL
Subject Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 0446539252
9780446539258
Standard No. NZ1 13058126
BWX R2803811
AU@ 000044817721
NLGGC 322272564

 
    
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