True Compass A Memoir

Edward M. Kennedy, John Bedford Lloyd

eAudio - 2009

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. 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 impa...ct 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,...

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Published
Hachette Audio
Language
English
Main Authors
Edward M. Kennedy, John Bedford Lloyd
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size548 GB
Parts17
ISBN9781600247552
Release Date1/8/2010
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size548 GB
ISBN9781600247552
Release Date1/8/2010