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True compass : a memoir / Edward M. Kennedy.

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780446539258
  • ISBN: 0446539252
  • ISBN: 9781408702284
  • ISBN: 9781408702376
  • Physical Description: x, 532 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Twelve, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 512-514) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.
United States. Congress. Senate > Biography.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Genre:
Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 59 of 59 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)

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Sneads Ferry Branch Library BIO KENNEDY (Text) 36015001200779 Adult Biography Available -
Alleghany Public Library B KENNEDY (Text) 30664100195079 Adult Biography Available -
Avery County Morrison Public Library B Kennedy (Text) 31111002441424 Adult Biography Available -
Beaufort Main B KENNEDY (Text) 34208202469440 Adult Biography Available -
Belhaven Public Library B Kennedy E (Text) 38344400129647 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Bethlehem Branch B Kennedy (Text) 34269000956293 Adult Biography Available -
Bladen Main Branch B KENNEDY (Text) 30441100562685 Adult Biography Available -
Boonville Community Public Library B KENNEDY (Text) 30005100151847 Adult Biography Available -
Camden County Library B KENNEDY (Text) 39488900188386 Adult Biography Available -
Charles H. Stone Memorial Library B KENNEDY (Text) 80001000833575 Adult Biography Available -