TY - BOOK AU - Kennedy, Edward Moore, TI - True compass: a memoir SN - 446539252 AV - E 840.8.K35 .T766 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York, NY PB - Twelve KW - Legislators KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [512]-514) and index N2 - and how his recent diagnosis of a malignant brain tumour has given even greater urgency to his long crusade for improved health care for all Americans. Written with warmth, wit, and grace, TRUE COMPASS is Edward M. Kennedy's inspiring legacy to readers and to history. www.alibris.com; his marriage to the woman who changed his life, Victoria Reggie Kennedy; his role in the major events of our time (from the civil rights movement to the election of Barack Obama); Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nation's history. He is also the patriarch of America's most heralded family. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Kennedy speaks with unprecedented candour about his extraordinary life. He writes movingly of his brothers and their influence on him ER -