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The Trial: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975 Audiobook, by Neal Gabler Play Audiobook Sample

The Trial: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975 Audiobook

The Trial: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975 Audiobook, by Neal Gabler Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Narrator Info Added Soon Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 21.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 16.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780593287590

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Total Audiobook Chapters:

36

Longest Chapter Length:

77:54 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

14 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

53:11 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

The 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.   In the tradition of the works of Robert Caro and Taylor Branch,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, 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.

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About Neal Gabler

Neal Gabler is a journalist. He works as a professor for the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. He graduated from Lane High School in Chicago, Illinois, and was inducted into the National Honor Society. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan and holds advanced degrees in film and American culture.