True Compass: A Memoir
ISBN:
9780446564595 (0446564591)
Edition language: English
Out of all the memoirs from public figures I have read, this is the best. Senator Edward M. Kennedy --- who earned the title "Lion of the Senate" for his unrivaled skills as a legislator --- takes the reader through the various phases of his life in a way that brings the reader closer to who he was,...
Here are a few thoughts that ran through my head as I listened to Edward M. "Teddy" Kennedy's memoirs:1. The rich really are different from us. 2. Teddy Kennedy really loves to sail. 3. I'm not sure that America is capable of producing great statesmen like Teddy Kennedy, let alone statesmen like his...
The dream lives on, the work continues. Persistence pays off."then one day, because there is a world to be lived in, you find yourself a part of it again, trying to accomplish something -- something that he did not have time enough to do." p.481 Quoting his father to another grieving father. "I have...
I really enjoyed the first 300-or-so pages of this book and sailed through that portion very quickly. After that it gets bogged down in the way of every politician autobio I've ever read. Too much detail about campaigns and the nuts and bolts of bureaucracy. I scanned much of this stuff, but I di...
15 years ago
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