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Ted Kennedy

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
An enthralling and ground-breaking new biography of one of modern America’s most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by an award-winning biographer who covered Kennedy closely for many years
John A. Farrell’s magnificent biography of Edward M. Kennedy is the first single-volume life of the great figure since his death. Farrell’s long acquaintance with the Kennedy universe and the acclaim accorded his previous books—including his New York Times bestselling biography of Richard Nixon, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—helped garner him access to a remarkable range of new sources, including segments of Kennedy’s personal diary and his private confessions to members of his family in the days that followed the accident on Chappaquiddick. Farrell is, without question, one of America’s greatest political biographers and a storyteller of deep wisdom and empathy. His book does full justice to this famously epic and turbulent life of almost unimaginable tragedy and triumph.
As the fourth son of the close-knit but fiercely competitive Kennedy clan, Ted was the runt of the litter. Expelled from Harvard University for cheating, he was a fun-loving playboy who nevertheless served his brothers loyally and effectively. It was easy to take Ted lightly, and many did. But when he was elected to the United States Senate at the age of thirty to fill his brother Jack’s seat, something unexpected happened: he found his home and his calling there. Over time, Ted Kennedy would build arguably the most significant senatorial career in American history.
His life was buffeted by heartbreak: the violent deaths of his three older brothers, his own terrible plane crash, his children’s bouts with cancer, and the hideous self-inflicted wounds of Chappaquiddick and stretches of drinking and womanizing that caused irreparable damage to an already fragile first marriage. Those wounds scarred Ted deeply but also tempered his character, and, eventually, he embarked on a run as legislator, party elder, and paterfamilias of the Kennedy family that would change America for the better. John A. Farrell brings us the man as he was, in strength and weakness, his profound but complicated inheritance and his vital legacy, as only a great biographer can do. Without the story this book tells, no understanding of modern America can be complete.

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     May 1, 2022
     

     Author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Nixon and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Clarence Darrow, Farrell has closely watched Ted Kennedy for years and here offers a hefty biography.

     Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from August 29, 2022
     Biographer Farrell (Richard Nixon: The Life) untangles in this masterful account the complex blend of political dexterity, recklessness, and unflagging support of the less fortunate that defined Ted Kennedy’s rise from overlooked youngest son of a political dynasty to “Lion of the Senate.” According to Farrell, Kennedy grew up “awed by the achievements of his father and brothers and vexed by self-doubt.” Only 30 years old when he took his brother John’s former seat in the U.S. Senate in 1962, Kennedy remained in that role until his death in 2009, fighting in his final months for the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Kennedy took early stands on civil rights, Farrell writes, but came into his own after the tragic assassinations of his older brothers. Farrell’s evenhanded account documents Kennedy’s “craven” behavior following the car crash on Chappaquiddick Island that left Mary Jo Kopechne dead, but gives equal weight to his accomplishments as an anti-apartheid advocate, an early champion of gay rights and AIDS funding, and a crusader for healthcare reform. The book shines in its vivid accounts of backroom political dealmaking, as Farrell enlivens his exhaustive research and expert analysis with a novelist’s pacing. The result is the definitive one-volume biography of a consequential American lawmaker.

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     Starred review from September 1, 2022
     Farrell delivers a comprehensive biography of the late senator. Ted Kennedy (1932-2009), writes biographer and former White House correspondent Farrell, was "a warm, playful human being who loved dogs, good times, song, and devilry." As a young man, he was health-conscious, abstemious, and a hard worker, though the least of a family deeply embedded in politics. His habits and mindset changed after the assassination of his brothers John and Bobby, when, as one family friend put it, "Much against his will...[Ted] was suddenly the head of this extraordinary family, a position he never aspired to and never expected." He bore that burden by womanizing and drinking, which became a troublesome hallmark. His political career was not always successful. Working on JFK's presidential campaign, he found himself in above his head, and the Denver Post blamed him for Kennedy's loss in Colorado. During that time, though married, he tried to seduce a woman named Judith Campbell only to be bested in the effort by JFK, who "reveled...at having beaten Teddy to the prize." His first run for public office stirred up outrage among some for the offense of "trading on his brother's name." Yet, in his decades in the Senate, he forged working alliances on both sides of the aisle and helped craft significant legislation--e.g., the foundations of the Affordable Care Act. Farrell looks closely at some little-known aspects of Kennedy's career, including his refusal to run as Hubert Humphrey's vice president in 1968, which, Farrell suggests, might have enhanced Kennedy's role as a national candidate and certainly would have changed the course of history. As this lengthy but engrossing narrative reveals, Kennedy, whom Senate colleague Alan Simpson called "one of the orneriest sons of bitches around," got plenty done, including adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. An exemplary study of a life of public service with more than its share of tragedies and controversies.

     COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     Starred review from September 1, 2022
     One of his brothers was president, another wanted to be. The deaths of John and Robert Kennedy bestowed a mantle upon their youngest brother that was often too heavy to bear. Ted was never sure he wanted to be president, but he felt it was incumbent upon him to try. When campaign after campaign failed due to circumstances both beyond and within his control, Kennedy settled into the office he held longer than all but three other U.S. senators in the nation's history. As a senator from Massachusetts for 46 years, Kennedy proved to be that now rarest of all legislators, someone who would work across party lines in service to causes in which he fervently believed. Kennedy's deal-making alacrity resulted in the enactment of beneficial laws that are today, in a time in which devotion to the common good seems quaint, under real threat. With hundreds of books published about the Kennedy dynasty, it may seem that there is nothing new to be learned, yet Farrell's focused and canny research produced a fresh, multifaceted portrait of a man conflicted by history, stalked by demons, and dedicated to ideals. Equitable and discerning, Farrell's nuanced biography is a valuable addition to the Kennedy canon.

     COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
An enthralling and ground-breaking new biography of one of modern America’s most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by an award-winning biographer who covered Kennedy closely for many years
John A. Farrell’s magnificent biography of Edward M. Kennedy is the first single-volume life of the great figure since his death. Farrell’s long acquaintance with the Kennedy universe and the acclaim accorded his previous books—including his New York Times bestselling biography of Richard Nixon, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—helped garner him access to a remarkable range of new sources, including segments of Kennedy’s personal diary and his private confessions to members of his family in the days that followed the accident on Chappaquiddick. Farrell is, without question, one of America’s greatest political biographers and a...

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