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

Title True compass : a memoir / Edward M. Kennedy
Edition First edition
Published New York, N.Y. : Twelve, 2009

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Description x, 532 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [512]-514) and index
Subject Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
LC no. 2009931859
ISBN 0446539252
9780446539258 hardback