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True compass [LP] a memoir

Edward M. ("Ted") Kennedy was first elected as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts in 1962, after playing a key role in his brother John's Presidential campaign. "In 2004 he began interviews at the Miller Center of the Univ. of Virginia for an oral history project about his life. S...

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Main Author: Kennedy, Edward M. 1932-2009.
Other Authors: Powers, Ron.
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Twelve Large Print, 2009.
Edition: 1st large print ed.
Subjects:
Kennedy, Edward M. > (Edward Moore), > 1932-2009.
United States. > Congress. > Senate > Biography.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Large print books.
Summary: Edward M. ("Ted") Kennedy was first elected as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts in 1962, after playing a key role in his brother John's Presidential campaign. "In 2004 he began interviews at the Miller Center of the Univ. of Virginia for an oral history project about his life. Since then he has drawn from his fifty years of contemporaneous notes from personal diaries and worked closely on this book with ... Ron Powers." -- dust jacket. In his revealing autobiography, Kennedy discusses his distinguished career, his family and personal relationships, and the tragedies that have befallen his family over the many years.
Physical Description: xi, 732 p. (large print), [40] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780446557993
0446557994
Author Notes: Edward M. Kennedy was born in 1932. He was thrown out of Harvard University in 1951 for cheating, but he eventually returned and received a degree in 1956. He also attended the University of Virginia Law School. He was elected to the Senate in 1962, taking the seat that his brother John F. Kennedy had occupied before being elected President, and served for the next 47 years. His legislative achievements included bills to provide health insurance for children of the working poor, the landmark 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, Meals on Wheels for the elderly, abortion clinic access, family leave, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He wrote the following books: My Senator and Me: A Dog's-Eye View of Washington, D. C. and True Compass. He died from brain cancer on August 25, 2009 at the age of 77.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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