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Edward Kennedy died at Chappaquiddick, along with Mary Jo Kopechne. It's hard to understand how a major figure like Ted could emerge from such a personal disaster, give such a thoroughly unconvincing explanation, and yet continue to pitch for high office. In the U.K. he'd have been finished, no matter how personable he and his brothers might have been. Robert F. Birkett, DRINKSTONE GREEN, ENGLAND...
...before he died of brain cancer on Aug. 25, the Massachusetts Senator draws on half a century's worth of journal entries and other notes to reconstruct a life full of seemingly endless tribulations. True Compass covers the violent deaths of his three older brothers, the unforgivable mess of Chappaquiddick and the tawdry William Kennedy Smith rape trial, while providing a picture of life in the claustrophobic Kennedy clan--an airtight hothouse of ambitious and competitive men and women. But it's clear that Kennedy hoped to be remembered best for his trailblazing Senate career, in which he championed legislation...
...held almost mythic status in this nation's public life, and Teddy - the youngest of Joseph and Rose's nine children - lasted the longest and suffered the greatest tribulations. The violent and sudden deaths of his three brothers, a plane crash, the scandalous (and, some say, unforgivable) night at Chappaquiddick: all juicy fodder for a memoir. Luckily for the curious, Kennedy had been working on one for two years before his death. It hits bookstores Sept...
...accident on the bridge to Chappaquiddick, an unexplained crash that claimed the life of a young worker on his brother Bobby's campaign, Mary Jo Kopechne - and forever tainted his political career: "That night on Chappaquiddick Island ended in a horrible tragedy that haunts me every day of my life. I had suffered sudden and violent loss far too many times, but this night was different. This night I was responsible. It was an accident, but I was responsible...
Kennedy, Senator Ted • behavior of at Chappaquiddick is described as "inexcusable" in posthumous memoir by • complaint by Mike Huckabee that politicizing the death of "defies good taste" goes ignored by Mike Huckabee • George H. W. Bush is the only living President who couldn't be bothered to attend the funeral of • heartfelt tributes...