Peter S. Canellos
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. Almost a century after his death, it was John Marshall Harlan's words that helped end segregation, and gave us our civil rights and our modern economic freedom. But his legacy would not have been possible without the courage of Robert Harlan, a slave who John's father raised like a son in the same household. After the Civil War,...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Dismissed as a spent force in politics by the time he reached middle age, Ted Kennedy became the most powerful senator of the last half century and the nation's keeper of traditional liberalism. Perceptive and carefully reported, drawing heavily from candid interviews with the Kennedy family and inner circle, "Last Lion" captures magnificently his life and historic achievements, as well as the personal redemption that he found.
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
A revealing and intimate biography of Ted Kennedy. He has witnessed greater tragedy and suffered greater pressure than any of his siblings. As the last Kennedy brother, he was the expected to the give nation the confidence to confront its problems. He quickly failed in spectacular fashion.