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True compass : a memoir / Edward M. Kennedy.

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

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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.

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  • 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.

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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.

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Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.
United States. Congress. Senate > Biography.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
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Autobiographies.

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