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True Compass: A Memoir de Edward M. Kennedy

True Compass: A Memoir

Autor Edward M. Kennedy John Bedford Lloyd
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 13 sep 2009

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Imaginați-vă un tânăr crescut sub presiunea unei moșteniri colosale, ultimul dintre cei nouă copii ai familiei Kennedy, stând în umbra unor frați care au definit destinul Americii. Misterul care a planat mereu asupra lui Ted Kennedy nu a fost legat doar de tragediile care i-au marcat parcursul, ci de modul în care un om marcat de eșecuri publice și controverse personale a reușit să devină 'Leul Senatului'. În True Compass, descoperim o confesiune începută cu cinci ani înainte de moartea sa, o privire rară și onestă dincolo de cortina mitului politic.

Reținem forța cu care autorul recreează atmosfera campaniei prezidențiale a lui John F. Kennedy și durerea paralizantă care a urmat asasinatelor ce i-au lăsat pe umeri greutatea întregului clan. Stilul narativ este unul cinematic, trecând de la momente de intimitate familială la marile dezbateri despre drepturi civile sau Vietnam. Cine a apreciat portretul din Kennedy de Ted Sorensen va găsi aici aceeași profunzime biografică, aplicată însă nu doar președinției, ci unei cariere legislative de o jumătate de secol. Spre deosebire de American Values CD de Jr. Robert F. Kennedy, care explorează istoria națiunii prin lentila valorilor de familie, memoriile lui Ted Kennedy sunt mai ancorate în mecanismele puterii de la Washington și în procesul transformării personale prin perseverență.

Notăm cu interes cum această lucrare se distinge de alte scrieri despre figuri politice, precum Ralph W. Yarborough, the People's Senator, prin faptul că este o voce directă, nefiltrată de biografi externi. Dacă în Refugee Roulette se analiza impactul politicilor asupra individului, în True Compass vedem cum experiențele proprii în spitale au alimentat lupta sa pentru reforma sănătății. Este povestea unui om care și-a găsit busola morală abia după ce a pierdut tot ce părea garantat prin naștere.

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ISBN-13: 9781600247545
ISBN-10: 1600247547
Pagini: 17
Dimensiuni: 177 x 129 x 57 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: HACHETTE AUDIO
Colecția Twelve
Locul publicării:New York, NY, United States

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Recomandăm această biografie celor care doresc să înțeleagă istoria americană a ultimilor 50 de ani prin ochii unui martor direct. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care reziliența personală poate influența legislația națională. Este o lectură esențială pentru pasionații de diplomație și istorie politică, oferind un răspuns onest la întrebarea: cum se reconstruiește o viață după o tragedie publică?

Despre autor

Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009), cunoscut sub numele de Ted, a fost una dintre cele mai influente figuri ale Partidului Democrat din SUA, servind ca senator de Massachusetts timp de aproape 47 de ani. Mezinul celebrei familii Kennedy, a fost arhitectul a numeroase legi fundamentale în domeniul sănătății, educației și drepturilor civile. De-a lungul carierei sale, a evoluat de la postura de frate mai tânăr al unui președinte martir la cea de mentor al noii generații de lideri, inclusiv Barack Obama. Lucrarea sa, True Compass, rămâne testamentul său politic și personal, oferind o cronică detaliată a puterii și a spiritului public american.

Descriere scurtă

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 John F. Kennedy, recounted here in loving detail. In 1962 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he began a fascinating political education and became a legislator.

In this historic memoir, Ted Kennedy takes us inside his family, re-creating life with his parents and brothers and explaining their profound impact on him. For the first time, he describes his heartbreak and years of struggle in the wake of their deaths. Through it all, he describes his work in the Senate on the major issues of our time -- civil rights, Vietnam, Watergate, the quest for peace in Northern Ireland -- and the cause of his life: improved health care for all Americans, a fight influenced by his own experiences in hospitals.

His life has been marked by tragedy and perseverance, a love of family, and an abiding faith. There have been controversies, too, and Kennedy addresses them with unprecedented candor. At midlife, embattled and uncertain if he would ever fall in love again, he met the woman who changed his life, Victoria Reggie Kennedy. Facing a tough reelection campaign against an aggressive challenger named Mitt Romney, Kennedy found a new voice and began one of the great third acts in American politics, sponsoring major legislation, standing up for liberal principles, and making the pivotal endorsement of Barack Obama for president.

Hundreds of books have been written about the Kennedys. True Compass will endure as the definitive account from a member of America's most heralded family, an inspiring legacy to readers and to history, and a deeply moving story of a life like no other.

Descriere

For the first time, one of America's greatest leaders tells his personal story - of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the centre of national events

Recenzii

"[A] deeply affecting memoir... he writes with searching candor about the losses, joys and lapses of his life; the love and closeness of his family; the solace he found in sailing and the sea; his complex relationships with political allies and rivals. Mr. Kennedy's conversational gifts as a storyteller and his sense of humor -- so often remarked on by colleagues and friends -- shine through here, as does his old-school sense of public service and his hard-won knowledge, in his son Teddy Jr.'s words, that 'even our most profound losses are survivable.'"—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Teddy has made a final, persuasive case for why he may actually be his family's greatest torchbearer."—TIME
"Often touching . . . After a life chronicled in tabloid chatter and often vicious editorial cartoons, Kennedy tells his own story here, expansively yet selectively, portraying himself as a dedicated, loving, flesh-and-blood figure who, despite being born well, had to prove himself. And the person, to whom he most had to do that is clearly etched in these pages. It was neither his famous brothers, nor his pious mother, Rose, nor even himself, but his controversial father, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. . . This is a book that all but the most toxic Kennedy critic could love . . . Later, there is much substance about his political life. His accounts are richly detailed. As a reporter covering Kennedy decades ago, I learned that he was keeping a diary and knew what a treasure it would someday be. It is. The best insights are perhaps his accounts of Senate maneuverings prior to the impeachment of Bill Clinton, his advocacy for peace in Northern Ireland, the misgivings that he and Robert both had about Vietnam, and the run-up to the latter's presidential campaign and subsequent murder in 1968 . . . He writes with great affection of dating and marrying the warmly elegant Vicki Reggie. The memoir is dedicated to her."—The Boston Globe, Boston Globe
"Touchingly candid, big-hearted and altogether superb . . . Completed in the shadow of the senator's own mortality, this is a book whose clarity of recollection and expression entitles it to share in the lineage established by America's first great memoir of public life -- 'The Autobiography of U.S. Grant,' which he wrote while himself dying of cancer . . . Kennedy was a devoted diarist whose natural gifts as a storyteller and as a sharp, painterly observer shine through every page . . . In the weeks leading up to [the] publication of TRUE COMPASS, much of the obvious 'news' in this book was leaked to the press . . . What's far more remarkable about this memoir is its capacious and generous spirit . . . TRUE COMPASS reminds us -- we
're all the poorer for his absence."
—Los Angeles Times
"Based on 50 years of notes and journal entries, this monumentally moving memoir illuminates nearly every aspect of the late senator's personal and public life and times. With incomparable wit and candor, Kennedy offers up his perspective on Senate colleagues, Presidents past, and most of all himself, revealing the tarnish along with the triumphs . . . Deeply affecting on the subjects of grief, his battle with brain cancer and his devotion to family, sailing and the Senate, this is an astonishingly intimate self-portrait of a man whose belief that 'if you persevere . . . you have a real opportunity to achieve something 'was born out by his extraordinary life."—People

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