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Reviewed on February 1, 2019 | Social Sciences
In 2008, the year before Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy's death, the late senator John McCain praised him as "the last lion of the senate." Perry (director, presidential studies, Miller Ctr., Univ. of Virginia;$SPACE$Rose Kennedy) validates this description in an exhaustive, first-rate oral history based on 23 interviews with Kennedy (1932–2009), skillfully conducted by historian James Stirling Young from 2005 to 2008. Chapters arranged chronologically investigate Kennedy's youth, family...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
