The last lion

By Peter Canellos

Subjects: United States, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2009-03-15, Biography, Legislators, New York Times bestseller, United States. Congress. Senate

Description: Dismissed as a spent force in politics by the time he reached middle age, Ted Kennedy became the most powerful senator of the last half century and the nation's keeper of traditional liberalism. Perceptive and carefully reported, drawing heavily from candid interviews with the Kennedy family and inner circle, "Last Lion" captures magnificently his life and historic achievements, as well as the personal redemption that he found.