April 23, 2010

Books

The Youngest Son

True Compass A Memoir Edward M. KennedyTwelve, $35, 531 pp.

Leslie Woodcock Tentler

By the end of his forty-five years in the Senate, Ted Kennedy had come into his own. Even his enemies were willing to concede that the aging lion of liberalism could no longer be pigeon-holed, and dismissed, as the youngest and least talented of the fabled Kennedy brothers. Little Teddy had finally “caught up”—a phrase he repeatedly employs in this memoir—and emerged as (...)


 

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