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Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975
by Gabler, Neal | HC | VeryGood
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- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 0307405443
- Book Title
- Catching the Wind : Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.8 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
- Topic
- American Government / Legislative Branch, United States / 20th Century, Political, American Government / General, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 45.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 928 Pages
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NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - "One of the truly great biographies of our time."--Sean Wilentz, New York Times bestselling author of Bob Dylan in America and The Rise of American Democracy "A landmark study of Washington power politics in the twentieth century in the Robert Caro tradition."--Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of American Moonshot The epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy--an immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality. Catching the Wind is the first volume of Neal Gabler's magisterial two-volume biography of Edward Kennedy. It is at once a human drama, a history of American politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and a study of political morality and the role it played in the tortuous course of liberalism. Though he is often portrayed as a reckless hedonist who rode his father's fortune and his brothers' coattails to a Senate seat at the age of thirty, the Ted Kennedy in Catching the Wind is one the public seldom saw--a man both racked by and driven by insecurity, a man so doubtful of himself that he sinned in order to be redeemed. The last and by most contemporary accounts the least of the Kennedys, a lightweight. He lived an agonizing childhood, being shuffled from school to school at his mother's whim, suffering numerous humiliations--including self-inflicted ones--and being pressed to rise to his brothers' level. He entered the Senate with his colleagues' lowest expectations, a show horse, not a workhorse, but he used his "ninth-child's talent" of deference to and comity with his Senate elders to become a promising legislator. And with the deaths of his brothers John and Robert, he was compelled to become something more: the custodian of their political mission. In Catching the Wind , Kennedy, using his late brothers' moral authority, becomes a moving force in the great "liberal hour," which sees the passage of the anti-poverty program and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. Then, with the election of Richard Nixon, he becomes the leading voice of liberalism itself at a time when its power is waning: a "shadow president," challenging Nixon to keep the American promise to the marginalized, while Nixon lives in terror of a Kennedy restoration. Catching the Wind also shows how Kennedy's moral authority is eroded by the fatal auto accident on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, dealing a blow not just to Kennedy but to liberalism. In this sweeping biography, Gabler tells a story that is Shakespearean in its dimensions: the story of a star-crossed figure who rises above his seeming limitations and the tragedy that envelopes him to change the face of America.
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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307405443
ISBN-13
9780307405449
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038804489
Product Key Features
Book Title
Catching the Wind : Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
American Government / Legislative Branch, United States / 20th Century, Political, American Government / General, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
928 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
45.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
E840.8.K35g34 2020
Reviews
"With his trademark elegance and insight, Neal Gabler has crafted a memorable and moving portrait of the last Kennedy brother, which is also, in a sense, a portrait of the last great creative era of governance in the United States. Gabler has made a specialty of capturing the lives of architects of the culture, and now Ted Kennedy joins Walter Winchell and Walt Disney in a gallery of enduring biography." --Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America "Neal Gabler's Catching the Wind is an awesome biographical achievement. The incredible legislative legacy of Senator Edward M. Kennedy burns brightly and heroically in these well written pages. Gabler, a brilliant historian and prodigious researcher, grapples with all sides of Kennedy's complex personality. The result is a landmark study of Washington power politics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the Robert Caro tradition. Highly recommended!" --Douglas Brinkley , Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University and New York Times bestselling author of American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race. "Neal Gabler's engrossing biography of Ted Kennedy--a decade in the making--is a remarkably revelatory work, one of those rare books that discards the mythical and reveals the human side of an enormously complicated politician. The youngest Kennedy brother now appears to be the most consequential. Judicious and thoughtful, Catching the Wind will be essential reading for understanding the fate of political liberalism in American history." --Kai Bird , Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at City University's Graduate Center
Lccn
2020-019328
Dewey Decimal
973.92092
Dewey Edition
23
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