Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
x, 532 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [512]-514) and index. |
Contents |
Torch -- Family. Safe harbor -- No crying in this house -- Wartime London -- Boarding school boy -- Harvard screwup -- Brotherhood. Kennedy for President -- Becoming a politician -- New Frontier -- Drinks with the Senator -- 1963 -- Falling to earth -- Thunder -- Bobby -- On my own. Shock of silence -- Hospital -- Nixonian radicals -- Backlash in Boston -- Sailing against the wind -- Reagan years -- Family business -- Renewal-- Woman who changed my life -- Campaigning for political survival -- Clinton years -- 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. |
Subject |
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.
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United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
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Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
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ISBN |
0446539252 |
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9780446539258 |
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