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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs." And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this groundbreaking biography of Edward Kennedy, historian and journalist Burton Hersh combines a lifetime of research and reporting with a lively mixture of never–before–told anecdotes (including the definitive version of the incident at Chappaquiddick, the details of which Kennedy himself filled in for Hersh shortly after it occurred) to create a broad yet unfailingly intimate portrait of the politician who would be universally...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story — of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events.
The youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, he came of age among siblings from whom much was expected. As a young man, he played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother...
The youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, he came of age among siblings from whom much was expected. As a young man, he played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Senator Edward M. Kennedy's dog, Champion Amigo's Seventh Wave, or Splash, introduces readers to Washington, D.C., as he follows the senator around for a day.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An impeccably researched, definitive biography that for the first time captures Ted Kennedy's life, from the author of 4 New York Times bestsellers about the Kennedy family.
In his nearly fifty years in the United States Senate, Edward "Ted" Kennedy has earned admiration for his powerful oratory as well as his powerful ideals. But he has also earned a reputation as an alcoholic and philanderer. Klein seeks to reconcile...
In his nearly fifty years in the United States Senate, Edward "Ted" Kennedy has earned admiration for his powerful oratory as well as his powerful ideals. But he has also earned a reputation as an alcoholic and philanderer. Klein seeks to reconcile...
17) RFK
Author
Publisher
Aperture
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First Aperture edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 x 31 cm
Language
English
18) Edward Kennedy
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The editors of LIFE Books have collected a richly illustrated biography of presidential candidate Barack Obama. This work includes intimate pictures from Obama's childhood and his time as editor of Harvard's Law Review, and culminates with the historic Democratic National Convention.
Publisher
Weston Woods Studios
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Celebrate American history and learn about the public and private lives of our Presidents; Senator Ted Kennedy and his dog, Splash, invite children on a typical whirlwind day on Capitol Hill; A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were Madam President; The true story of Esther Morris, who started out life believing she could do anything, and then proved it. Suports early reading; leadership; history knowledge.
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