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“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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The most comprehensive biography of the underwater specialist. Lots of important history. Love Ted Kennedy or dislike him, this fine book is instructive of the times. There was pressure for Ted to live up to his older siblings and his imperious father's demands. Neal Gabler the author is no fan of Ted Kennedy's father [rightly so]. Joe Kennedy Senior comes off as a first three letters of association hole. The underwater specialist went through scandals unscathed as this well-written book illustrates. However, to label the chapter on Chappaquiddick "the wrong side of destiny" is inaccurate. It was not destiny. Ted Kennedy had free will, that is, a choice to drive an automobile after two Rum &Cokes. More significantly, Ted Kennedy had free will to report or, to not report the accident immediately, and possibly get help right away to save Mary Jo. Hence, Ted used his freedom of choice, Ted chose to not seek help. Mary Jo's death was not "destiny". Mr Gabler is an apologist for Ted's reprehensible behavior. Cheating on a Spanish exam is a booboo akin to a parking ticket. Chappaquiddick is thousands of times worse. Nevertheless i recommend this work. Improved my vocab. Looked up palavering, patina, nimbus, Pygmalion, corpone, Rotarianism, brio, rapscallion, roman a clef and oleaginous.

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