Ted Kennedy - Profile Of A Survivor By William H. Honan

Ted Kennedy - Profile Of A Survivor By William H. Honan Condition:  Good with slight edge wear to dust jacket KIRKUS REVIEW The least rewarding of the Edward Kennedy books this season (the best is Burton Hersh's The Education of Edward Kennedy, p. 236; the other, David Lester's Ted Kennedy: Triumphs and Tragedies, p. 230), this reads very much like the three New York Times Magazine articles from whence it came. Honan does spare us reiteration of the well-known biographical details, centering rather on three recent personal/political shocks -- the senatorial whip contests, Chappaquiddick, Robert's death -- and ballooning it with airy and apparently erroneous speculation that Kennedy is indeed an active unannounced presidential candidate for '72. Re the latter, Honan is a caricature of the small-time reporter in big-story heat: for instance, traveling with the Senator during his five-state western tour last fall, Honan notes after a speech in Bismarck, ""The applause was thunderous and