ISBN号:9780525558088
书名:Ted Kennedy
作者:John A. Farrell
出版日期:2022-10-25
英文简介:
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION An enthralling and ground-breaking new biography of one of modern America’s most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by an award-winning biographer who covered Kennedy closely for many years John A.
Farrell’s magnificent biography of Edward M.
Kennedy is the first single-volume life of the great figure since his death.
Farrell’s long acquaintance with the Kennedy universe and the acclaim accorded his previous books–including his New York Times bestselling biography of Richard Nixon, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize–helped garner him access to a remarkable range of new sources, including segments of Kennedy’s personal diary and his private confessions to members of his family in the days that followed the accident on Chappaquiddick.
Farrell is, without question, one of America’s greatest political biographers and a storyteller of deep wisdom and empathy.
His book does full justice to this famously epic and turbulent life of almost unimaginable tragedy and triumph.
As the fourth son of the close-knit but fiercely competitive Kennedy clan, Ted was the runt of the litter.
Expelled from Harvard University for cheating, he was a fun-loving playboy who nevertheless served his brothers loyally and effectively.
It was easy to take Ted lightly, and many did.
But when he was elected to the United States Senate at the age of thirty to fill his brother Jack’s seat, something unexpected happened: he found his home and his calling there.
Over time, Ted Kennedy would build arguably the most significant senatorial career in American history.
His life was buffeted by heartbreak: the violent deaths of his three older brothers, his own terrible plane crash, his children’s bouts with cancer, and the hideous self-inflicted wounds of Chappaquiddick and stretches of drinking and womanizing that caused irreparable damage to an already fragile first marriage.
Those wounds scarred Ted deeply but also tempered his character, and, eventually, he embarked on a run as legislator, party elder, and paterfamilias of the Kennedy family that would change America for the better.
John A.
Farrell brings us the man as he was, in strength and weakness, his profound but complicated inheritance and his vital legacy, as only a great biographer can do.
Without the story this book tells, no understanding of modern America can be complete.
中文简介:
入围 2022 年国家图书奖非小说类作品 这是一部引人入胜且具有开创性的新传记，讲述了现代美国最迷人和最重要的政治人物之一，借鉴了重要的新资源，由一位多年来密切关注肯尼迪的传记作者所著 John A . 法瑞尔为爱德华·M·肯尼迪撰写的宏伟传记是这位伟大人物死后的第一部单卷本传记。
法雷尔对肯尼迪宇宙的长期了解和他以前的书所获得的赞誉——包括他在纽约时报畅销的理查德尼克松传记，他是普利策奖的决赛选手——帮助他获得了一系列非凡的新资源，包括片段肯尼迪的个人日记和他在查帕奎迪克事故发生后的几天里对家人的私人忏悔。
毫无疑问，法雷尔是美国最伟大的政治传记作家之一，也是一位具有深厚智慧和同理心的讲故事的人。
他的书完全公正地描述了这段以几乎难以想象的悲剧和胜利而闻名的史诗般动荡的生活。
作为紧密但竞争激烈的肯尼迪家族的第四个儿子，泰德是这窝里的小矮子。
因作弊被哈佛大学开除，他是一个爱玩的花花公子，但仍然忠诚有效地为他的兄弟们服务。
人们很容易对泰德掉以轻心，很多人都这样做了。但是，当他在30岁时当选为美国参议员，填补他哥哥杰克的席位时，意想不到的事情发生了:他在那里找到了自己的家和使命。
随着时间的推移，泰德肯尼迪将建立可以说是美国历史上最重要的参议员生涯。
他的生活充满了心碎：他三个哥哥的惨死，他自己可怕的飞机失事，他的孩子患癌症，查帕奎迪克自残的可怕伤口，以及酗酒和玩弄女人给已经无法弥补的伤害脆弱的初婚。
这些伤口深深地伤害了泰德，但也锻炼了他的性格，最终，他开始竞选立法者、党内元老和肯尼迪家族的家长，这将使美国变得更好。
约翰·A·法雷尔 (John A. Farrell) 向我们展示了这个人的本来面目，既有力量也有弱点，他深刻而复杂的遗产和重要的遗产，只有伟大的传记作家才能做到。
没有本书讲述的故事，就无法完整地了解现代美国。
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