The Kennedy Legacy: Jack, Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream Fulfilled
ISBN: 9780230623866 | 0230623867
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date: 8/3/2010
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Vincent Bzdek explores the Kennedy legacy and looks to the future of America's most famous clan
The closing of Ted Kennedy's chapter in America's political and cultural life means that, for the first time perhaps, the real measure of the Kennedy legacy can finally be taken. John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy's individual stories can now be seen as essentially one, with each brother striving to fulfill the interrupted promise of the brother before. How did the brothers pass the family torch to each other? And who carries... MORE
The closing of Ted Kennedy's chapter in America's political and cultural life means that, for the first time perhaps, the real measure of the Kennedy legacy can finally be taken. John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy's individual stories can now be seen as essentially one, with each brother striving to fulfill the interrupted promise of the brother before. How did the brothers pass the family torch to each other? And who carries... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. vi |
| Prologue: The Last Hurrah | p. 1 |
| Joe, Jack, Bobby and Teddy | |
| The Blowtorch | p. 15 |
| An Army of Mothers | p. 25 |
| A Letter from Joe | p. 37 |
| Jack, Bobby and Teddy | |
| The Sweet-and-Sour Brother Act | p. 57 |
| The Kennedy Generation | p. 71 |
| Let Us Begin | p. 85 |
| Ted's Turn | p. 99 | ... MORE
| Bobby and Ted | |
| Brothers in Arms | p. 115 |
| The Impossible Dream | p. 129 |
| Ted | |
| The Reluctant Patriarch | p. 145 |
| The Torchbearer | p. 155 |
| A Camelot Too Far | p. 171 |
| The Minotaur | p. 185 |
| Four Funerals and a Wedding | p. 199 |
| His Finest Hour | p. 215 |
| The Fight of His Life | p. 227 |
| Epilogue: The Dream Lives On | p. 241 |
| Notes | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 269 |
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Vincent Bzdek is the news editor and a features writer at The Washington Post. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine, The Denver Post, and is the author of Woman of the House. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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