Most Popular Books by Edward M. Kennedy

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. TRUE COMPASS The youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, he came of age among siblings from whom much was expected. As a young man, he played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother John F. Kennedy, recounted here in loving detail. In 1962 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he began a fascinating political education and became a legislator. In this historic memoir, Ted Kennedy takes us inside his family, re-creating life with his parents and brothers and explaining their profound impact on him. For the first time, he describes his heartbreak and years of struggle in the wake of their deaths. Through it all, he describes his work in the Senate on the major issues of our time--civil rights, Vietnam, Watergate, the quest for peace in Northern Ireland--and the cause of his life: improved health care for all Americans, a fight influenced by his own experiences in hospitals. His life has been marked by tragedy and perseverance, a love of family, and an abiding faith. There have been controversies, too, and Kennedy addresses them with unprecedented candor. At midlife, embattled and uncertain if he would ever fall in love again, he met the woman who changed his life, Victoria Reggie Kennedy. Facing a tough reelection campaign against an aggressive challenger named Mitt Romney, Kennedy found a new voice and began one of the great third acts in American politics, sponsoring major legislation, standing up for liberal principles, and making the pivotal endorsement of Barack Obama for president. Hundreds of books have been written about the Kennedys. TRUE COMPASS will endure as the definitive account from a member of America''s most heralded family, an inspiring legacy to readers and to history, and a deeply moving story of a life like no other.

The four-decade senator identifies a crossroads in America while contending that the country has stepped away from its basic ideals, in a call for national reform that proposes changes to national security, health care, education, civil rights, energy, and the environment. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

En estas memorias históricas, Ted Kennedy —el menor de los nueve hijos de Joseph P. Kennedy y Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy— nos introduce en el seno de su legendaria familia, recrea la vida con sus padres y hermanos, explica la enorme influencia que ejercieron en él y describe por vez primera la angustia que sufrió tras los asesinatos de John y Robert Kennedy. En todo momento se refiere a su labor en el Senado, que se vincula con los temas más importantes de nuestra época: los derechos civiles, la lucha contra la discriminación racial, la guerra de Vietnam, el caso Watergate, la búsqueda de la paz en Irlanda de Norte y la razón de su vida, la reforma sanitaria para toda la población estadounidense. El senador, que prestó un apoyo decisivo a la candidatura de Barack Obama a la presidencia, tampoco estuvo exento de la polémica —como el escándalo de Chappaquiddick que le costó en 1969 la elección a la presidencia—, que aborda en este libro con una franqueza sin precedentes. Se han publicado cientos de obras sobre los Kennedy, sin embargo esta perdurará como el relato definitivo de una de las familias más conocidas y carismáticas en todo el mundo. Un legado inspirador para los lectores y para la historia y una narración profundamente emocionante del último gran estandarte de los Kennedy.

Hearing on S. 318 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic info. with respect to health insurance. Witnesses: Francis Collins, Nat. Human Genome Research Inst.; Kathleen Zeitz, Nebraska lead coordinator, Nat. Breast Cancer Coalition; David Escher, employee, Burlington Northern Santa Fe RR; Nat. Partnership for Women & Families, prepared statement; Bonnie Lipton, pres., Hadassah; Ronald Weich, leg. consultant, Amer. Civil Liberties Union; Jeremy Gruber, legal dir., Nat. Workrights Inst.; Michael Watson, Amer. College of Med. Genetics; Nat. Hemophilia Fdn., prepared state.; & Sen. Edward Kennedy, Michael Enzi, Tim Hutchinson, Bill Frist, Thomas Daschle, Barbara Mikulski, Tom Harkin, Susan Collins, & Olympia Snow.