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ruly great biographies of our time.Sean Wilentz, New York Times bestselling author of Bob Dylan in America and The Rise of American Democracy A landmark study of Washington power politics in the twentieth century in the Robert Caro tradition.Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of American Moonshot The epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedyan immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality.Catching the Windis the first volume of Neal Gablers magisterial two-volume biography of Edward Kennedy. It is at once a human drama, a history of American politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and a study of political morality and the role it played in the tortuous course of liberalism.Though he is often portrayed as a reckless hedonist who rode his fathers fortune and his brothers coattails to a Senate seat at the age of thirty, the Ted Kennedy in Catching the Wind is one the public seldom sawa man both racked by and driven by insecurity, a man so doubtful of himself that he sinned in order to be redeemed. The last and by most contemporary accounts the least of the Kennedys, a lightweight. He lived an agonizing childhood, being shuffled from school to school at his mothers whim, suffering numerous humiliationsincluding self-inflicted onesand being pressed to rise to his brothers level. He entered the Senate with his colleagues lowest expectations, a show horse, not a workhorse, but he used his ninth-childs talent of deference to and comity with his Senate elders to become a promising legislator. And with the deaths of his brothers John and Robert, he was compelled to become something more: the custodian of their political mission.InCatching the Wind, Kennedy, using his late brothers moral authority, becomes a moving force in the great liberal hour, which sees the passage of the anti-poverty program and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. Then, with the election of Richard Nixon, he becomes the leading voice of liberalism itself at a time when its power is waning: a shadow president, challenging Nixon to keep the American promise to the marginalized, while Nixon lives in terror of a Kennedy restoration. Catching the Wind also shows how Kennedys moral authority is eroded by the fatal auto accident on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, dealing a blow not just to Kennedy but to liberalism.In this sweeping biography, Gabler tells a story that is Shakespearean in its dimensions: the story of a star-crossed figure who rises above his seeming limitations and the tragedy that envelopes him to change the face of America.

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