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. 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.Ĭatching the Wind is the first volume of Neal Gabler’s magisterial two-volume biography of Edward Kennedy. “A landmark study of Washington power politics in the twentieth century in the Robert Caro tradition.”-Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of American Moonshot “One of the truly great biographies of our time.”-Sean Wilentz, New York Times bestselling author of Bob Dylan in America and The Rise of American Democracy.
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