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Neal Gabler's "Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009"

By Joe Donahue
Published November 16, 2022 at 11:33 AM EST
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"Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009" completes Neal Gabler’s magisterial biography of Ted Kennedy, but it also unfolds the epic, tragic story of the fall of liberalism and the destruction of political morality in America.

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