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Gabler, Neal, author.
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Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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Against the wind : E...
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Against the wind : Edward Kennedy and the rise of conservatism / Neal Gabler.
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Gabler, Neal, author.
New York : Crown, [2022]
Subjects
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
ISBN:
9780593238622 (hardcover) :
0593238621 (hardcover)
Description:
xxviii, 1227 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Introduction: A countervailing wind -- A man of the Senate -- The chemistry of the Senate -- "A special place in his animus" -- Sniffing the wind -- "In the lap of the gods" -- "Just another Clark Kent" -- "Keep the rudder true" -- "Everything but the nomination" -- Life after disaster -- "The powerful appeal of our most decent values" -- A new man -- "We need the results" -- The undertow -- Mea culpa -- "Stability and tranquility" -- "The battle of his political life" -- Stiffening their spines -- Running the Senate -- Endings and epilogues -- The charm offensive/the war offensive -- "A fraud cooked up in Texas" -- "The moral challenge of doing the right thing" -- Hope -- Return to the sea.
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"From the author of Catching the Wind, called "one of the truly great biographies of our time," comes the second volume of the epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy-in which America's tectonic shift toward conservatism leaves Kennedy the lone powerful voice in the fight to advance protection for the poor and working-class. In Against the Wind, Ted Kennedy enters 1975 no longer in his brothers' shadow but as a force in his own right, having assumed their mantle as a leading liberal, borne along by the progressive wind that they had helped generate. But as the seventies grind on, Ted Kennedy sails largely against the wind as it shifts direction-first with the election of Jimmy Carter, a moderate who prioritized budget-balancing over the old causes for which Ted had labored, and then with Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, who bundled the discontents of the white working and middle classes into the most powerful force in American politics. When the liberal hour wound down, those resentments would consume American politics for decades. Ted Kennedy, then, was tasked with advocating for the poor and the dispossessed at a time when the idea of individual responsibility overwhelmed that of communal responsibility. This volume tells the story of how a political titan used his legislative mastery to beat back the most dire threats to the nation's most vulnerable individuals. Both politically and personally, Kennedy found himself lost at sea in a time of conservative ascendancy. But he ultimately regained his ballast and emerged not only as the political conscience of the nation but also as the "Lion of the Senate," with a reputation among both Democrats and Republicans as the most effective legislator of his own and possibly all time. In Against the Wind, Neal Gabler brings his inimitable insight to bear on a man who fought to keep liberalism alive when so many were determined to extinguish it. This outstanding conclusion to the epic biography that began with Catching the Wind sheds new light on the great American century and one of its most revered figures"--
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973.92092 Kennedy Ga
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