特德·肯尼迪：一生 Ted Kennedy:A Life

基本信息

ISBN9780525558071

Published onOct 25, 2022

Published byPenguin Press

Pages752

Dimensions6-1/8 x 9-1/4

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

入围2022年美国国家图书奖非虚构类图书奖

这部引人入胜、开创性的全新传记，以重要的新资料为背景，讲述了美国当代引人入胜、具影响力的政治人物之一的故事。本书作者是一位屡获殊荣的传记作家，多年来密切关注肯尼迪的生平。

约翰·A·法雷尔（John A. Farrell）撰写的爱德华·M·肯尼迪（Edward M. Kennedy）宏伟传记，是这位伟人去世后单卷本传记。法雷尔对肯尼迪圈的长期了解，以及他之前作品的赞誉——包括他入围普利策奖决赛的《纽约时报》畅销书《理查德·尼克松传记》——帮助他获得了大量新资料，包括肯尼迪个人日记的片段以及他在查帕奎迪克事故发生后几天对家人的私人忏悔。毫无疑问，法雷尔是美国伟大的政治传记作家之一，也是一位充满智慧和同理心的讲述者。这本书充分展现了这位史诗般跌宕起伏、几乎难以想象的悲剧与胜利的一生。

作为肯尼迪家族中关系密切却竞争激烈的第四个儿子，泰德是家中的矮子。他曾因作弊被哈佛大学开除，却依然是个爱玩的花花公子，忠诚高效地为兄弟们服务。人们很容易轻视泰德，而且很多人都这么做。但当他三十岁当选美国参议员，接替哥哥杰克的席位时，意想不到的事情发生了：他在那里找到了自己的归属感和使命感。随着时间的推移，泰德·肯尼迪打造了美国历史上意义非凡的参议员生涯。

他的一生饱受心碎的折磨：三个哥哥的惨死，他自己可怕的飞机失事，孩子们与癌症的抗争，以及查帕奎迪克事件中可怕的自我伤害，以及长期酗酒和寻欢作乐，这些都给本已脆弱的第一次婚姻造成了无法弥补的伤害。这些伤痛深深地烙在泰德身上，也磨练了他的性格。最终，他踏上了一条通往成功的旅程，成为立法者、党内元老以及肯尼迪家族的一家之主，最终改变了美国。约翰·A·法雷尔向我们展现了他生平的真面目，展现了他的优点和缺点，展现了他深刻而复杂的传承，以及他留下的重要遗产，一位伟大的传记作家才能如此。如果没有这本书讲述的故事，我们对现代美国的理解就不完整。

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

An enthralling and groundbreaking new biography of one of modern America’s most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by an award-winning biographer who covered Kennedy closely for many years

John A. Farrell’s magnificent biography of Edward M. Kennedy is the first single-volume life of the great figure since his death. Farrell’s long acquaintance with the Kennedy uni­verse and the acclaim accorded his previous books—including his New York Times best­selling biography of Richard Nixon, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—helped garner him access to a remarkable range of new sources, including segments of Kennedy’s personal diary and his private confessions to members of his family in the days that followed the accident on Chappaquiddick. Farrell is, without question, one of America’s greatest politi­cal biographers and a storyteller of deep wisdom and empathy. His book does full justice to this famously epic and turbulent life of almost unimaginable tragedy and triumph.

As the fourth son of the close-knit but fiercely competitive Kennedy clan, Ted was the runt of the litter. Expelled from Harvard University for cheating, he was a fun-loving playboy who nevertheless served his brothers loyally and effectively. It was easy to take Ted lightly, and many did. But when he was elected to the United States Senate at the age of thirty to fill his brother Jack’s seat, something unexpected happened: He found his home and his calling there. Over time, Ted Kennedy would build arguably the most significant senatorial career in American history.

His life was buffeted by heartbreak: the violent deaths of his three older brothers, his own terrible plane crash, his children’s bouts with cancer, and the hideous self-inflicted wounds of Chappaquiddick and stretches of drinking and womanizing that caused ir­reparable damage to an already fragile first marriage. Those wounds scarred Ted deeply but also tempered his character, and, eventually, he embarked on a run as legislator, party elder, and paterfamilias of the Kennedy family that would change America for the better. John A. Farrell brings us the man as he was, in strength and weakness, his profound but complicated inheritance and his vital legacy, as only a great biographer can do. Without the story this book tells, no understanding of modern America can be complete.

作者简介

约翰·A·法雷尔是《理查德·尼克松：生平》一书的作者，该书荣获美国笔会/杰奎琳·博格拉德·韦尔德传记奖和纽约历史学会芭芭拉和戴维·扎拉兹尼克美国历史图书奖。该书入围2018年普利策奖决赛。2001年，他出版了《蒂普·奥尼尔与民主世纪》，并荣获D·B·哈德曼国会图书奖。他的著作《克拉伦斯·达罗：被诅咒者的律师》荣获2011年《洛杉矶时报》传记图书奖。他还因对任期的报道荣获乔治·波尔克奖、杰拉尔德·R·福特奖和白宫记者奖。

John A. Farrell is the author of Richard Nixon: The Life, which won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2018. In 2001, he published Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century, which won the D. B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress. His book Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned won the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize for Biography in 2011. He has also earned a George Polk award, the Gerald R. Ford prize, and White House Correspondents honors for his coverage of the presidency.