Volume 56, Number 18 · November 19, 2009
Ted
By Russell Baker
True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy
Twelve, 532 pp., $35.00
In the house of Joseph P. Kennedy, training for success began in early childhood with deep immersion in the competitive way of life. Competition was what led to achievement in America: such at least was the Kennedy theory, and Joseph P. Kennedy was determined that his children, all nine of them, should achieve at a very high level.
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