Lot 991

"Catching The Wind" by Neal Gabler 2020 HC Edward Kennedy Bio 1st/1st In DJ

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Lot 991
"Catching The Wind" by Neal Gabler 2020 HC Edward Kennedy Bio 1st/1st In DJ

"Catching The Wind" by Neal Gabler 2020 HC Edward Kennedy Bio 1st/1st In DJ

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VINTAGE 2020 Hardcover Biography Of Edward Kennedy 1st Edition 1st Printing In Dust Jacket. "Catching The Wind: Edward Kennedy & The Liberal Hour, 1932-1975" by Neal Gabler. HARDCOVER 2020 Crown Publishers Stated 1st Edition 1st Printing with "First Edition" & numbers 1-9 on copyright page. Exactly as shown in listing scan(s). Nice Collectible stated 1st Edition 1st Printing hardcover copy in Dust Jacket.

"The 1st volume of the epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy, covering the years 1932 to 1975 is an 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 Wind" is the first volume of Neal Gabler’s 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 father’s 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 saw—a 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 mother's whim, suffering numerous humiliations—including self-inflicted ones—and 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-child's 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. In "Catching the Wind," Ted 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 Kennedy's 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. An Index, Notes, & Bibliography at the end makes further research easier."

AS COPY. Illustrated with photos. Internally tight & unmarked. Binding Exterior; all lettering/decoration bright. SELDOM PRESENT $40 unclipped DJ. NO REMAINDER MARK; NOT X-LIBRARY. ALL ITEMS ARE GUARANTEED TO BE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED, NOT DEFECTIVE, & GENUINE.

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