"Catching the Wind" is the first volume of Neal Gablers 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. Though he is often portrayed as a reckless hedonist who rode his fathers 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. He entered the Senate with his colleagues lowest expectations, a show horse, not a workhorse, but he used his ninth-childs 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.

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