Catching the Wind (Paperback)

Neal Gabler

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Editorial: Random House USA Inc, New York, 2021

0307405451 / 9780307405456

Serie: Libro 1 de 1 - Edward Kennedy

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Paperback. 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.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 MoonshotThe 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. "The first installment of Neal Gabler's . two-volume life of Edward Kennedy and [an] . exploration of the decline of political morality in America"--Back cover. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Título
Catching the Wind (Paperback)
Autor
Neal Gabler
Editorial
Random House USA Inc, New York
Año de publicación
2021
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0307405451
ISBN 13
9780307405456
Serie
Libro 1 de 1: Edward Kennedy

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