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Author Gabler, Neal, author.

Title Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour / Neal Gabler.

Publisher New York : Crown, [2020]

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Edition First edition.
Physical Description xxxvi, 887 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [827]-841) and index.
Contents Introduction: They came -- The youngest -- The least -- The succession -- "If his name was Edward Moore..." -- The lowest expectations -- "Do a little suffering" -- "A heightened sense of purpose" -- A dying wind -- All hell fell -- A fallen standard -- A shadow president -- "The wrong side of destiny" -- Starting from scratch -- "People do not want to be improved" -- "Awesome power with no discipline" -- S.3 -- "Our long national nightmare is over".
Summary The youngest of nine, Edward M. Kennedy lacked his brothers' natural gifts and easy grace. Yet after winning election to the Senate at age thirty, he became the most consequential legislator of his lifetime. He swept into the Senate at the high-water mark of the mid-century New Deal consensus and fulfilled the promise of that momentum throughout his glory years in the Senate as the booming voice of American liberalism. That voice found its greatest impact in the laws he passed that wove government firmly into American life, extending aid and opportunity to those in most desperate need. In his life Kennedy was known to fail, to sin, to fall in and out of favor. Gabler provides a powerful exploration of the man who spent his career upholding his mandate in service of a better America. -- adapted from publisher info.
Subject Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Biographies.