
Through it all, he describes his work in the Senate on the major issues of our time - civil rights, Vietnam, Watergate, the quest for peace in Northern Ireland - and the cause of his life: improved health care for all Americans, a fight influenced by his own experiences in hospitals. For the first time, he describes his heartbreak and years of struggle in the wake of their deaths. In this historic memoir, Ted Kennedy takes us inside his family, re-creating life with his parents and brothers and explaining their profound impact on him. Senate, where he began a fascinating political education and became a legislator. Kennedy, recounted here in loving detail. As a young man, he played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother John F. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, he came of age among siblings from whom much was expected. The youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story - of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events.


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