Up authors from all across the country. You dont have to be in california anymore which is nice and tonight we have neil neal gabler and i just wanted to say that we have hundreds of these programs on our website and on our youtube channel, youtube Commonwealth Club so you look at the ones weve done already and tonight we are going to be discussing catching the wind Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour, 19321975. A very interesting analysis of the kennedy wave which came in three parts, three brothers and also how it crashed very interesting. I take it from what i read about this this is the first volume of a twovolume ted kennedybiography that you took through 1975. So welcome and thank you very much for joining us and its great that you switched your career to writing these big biographies. So first question i have is in your acknowledgments at the end you mention that the book started off as an idea to write a book about political morality. Did your publisher then say theres not enou
He was kind of thinking he was going to run for the unfinished term and nobody really told him until very long down the line that that wasnt going to happen. That this was now teds seat and that ted was going to run and then smith was going to be evicted from that. And then smith was a great kennedy, loyalist and all that but nothing stood in the way of kennedy ambition. And given teds own ambition although he was largely pushed into that seat by his father as i said earlier, he said tojohn and robert, youve got yours and now its teds turn to get his and 10, though he didnt do murder, he wanted the seat but he was kind of pushed into it. And pushed into a difficult primary campaign by the nephew, speaker of the house John Mccormack and his nephew had mccormack ran against ted. First at the Democratic State convention and then when ted got the endorsement against him in the democratic primary. It was a really brutal primary of these two massachusetts dynasties. To see whether of the mor
Many of you will recognize. I want to say we have hundreds of these programs on our website and our Youtube Channel so you can look at the ones weve done already. Tonight we will be discussing catching the wind Edward Kennedy in the liberal hour. An interesting analysis of the kennedy wave in 3 parts and how it crashed, very interesting. I take it from what i read that this is the first volume of a 2volume ted kennedy biography through 19751975 so welcome and thank you for joining us. Thank you for the invitation. You switched your career to writing these big biographies so first question is in your acknowledgments you mentioned the book started as an idea to write a book about political morality. Did your publisher then say theres not enough material to make a book . These days they would definitely say that but in point of fact it is interesting. I was coming off of a biography so this seems very much like unity a, when i proposed my next book to my publisher i had become intrigued b
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