![]() ![]() Farrell’s “Ted Kennedy: A Life” is a more conventional one-volume biography, drawing on the customary sources and methods to depict Kennedy as the reluctant dauphin of a fabled political dynasty who transformed himself into “one of the greatest U.S. ![]() Neal Gabler’s “Against the Wind,” the second volume of a two-volume life, is subtitled “Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009” its theme is that Kennedy’s life and career are important because, in the course of a half-century in public office, he rose to become the “Lion of the Senate,” the last liberal fighting a valiant rearguard action against the forces of reaction in late 20th-century America. These two lengthy volumes approach the same subject from slightly different angles. Edward Kennedy, seated between his brothers John (at left) and Robert, in August 1963. ![]()
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