{"product_id":"catching-the-wind-edward-kennedy-and-the-liberal-hour-1932-1975-paperback","title":"Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNeal Gabler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK - \"One of the truly great biographies of our time.\"--Sean Wilentz, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBob Dylan in America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of American Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A landmark study of Washington power politics in the twentieth century in the Robert Caro tradition.\"--Douglas Brinkley, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Moonshot\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatching the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough 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 \u003ci\u003eCatching the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCatching the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eCatching the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeal Gabler \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of five books, including three biographies: \u003ci\u003eAn Empire of Their Own\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize; \u003ci\u003eWinchell\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's nonfiction book of the year and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and \u003ci\u003eWalt Disney\u003c\/i\u003e, which won him his second Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was named biography of the year by USA Today. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shorenstein Fellowship from Harvard, and a Woodrow Wilson Public Policy scholarship, and was the chief nonfiction judge of the National Book Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 928\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767210737952,"sku":"9780307405456","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8d3a65d1fd6bc58e2f06eedcc2f2c8b2.webp?v=1780306717","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/catching-the-wind-edward-kennedy-and-the-liberal-hour-1932-1975-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}