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Easton Press leather edition of John A. Farrell's "Ted Kennedy: A Life, a COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the SIGNED FIRST EDITION series, Personally Signed by John A. Farrell, Number 3 of 300 copies, published in 2022. Bound in tan leather, the book has camel tan moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Edward Moore Kennedy, who lived from 1932-2009, was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts who served as a U.S. Democratic Senator from 1962 until his death. The ninth child of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, he was a member of a prominent Irish American family. His older brother John asked to be the newborn's godfather, a request the parents honored. As a child he was frequently uprooted and attended 10 schools by the age of eleven. He was an altar boy at St. Joseph's Church and was seven when he received his First Communion from POPE PIUS XII in the Vatican. He and his family lived in London in the late 1930s when his father was the Ambassador to the Court of St. James, but Rose returned to the U.S. when the Germans began bombing London. Ted attended Harvard where he was a mediocre student but excelled at football. He was 6'2" tall, with broad shoulders, a thick head of hair and hairy chest---and drop-dead handsome. H e was also on the tennis team and was in drama, debate and glee club. He always drove one of the nicest cars on campus. In 1951, he enlisted in the U.S. Army after being expelled from Harvard for cheating on a Spanish exam. After his military service, he returned to Harvard where he graduated and later graduated from the University of Virginia where he had to study "four times as hard and four times as long" as other students to keep up. Before he married Joan Bennett in 1958 at age 26, he had "bedded" scores of women in Europe and the U.S. Ted was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. In 1969, Senator Kennedy had the Chappaquiddick incident which resulted in the death of Mary Jo Kopeche. He pleaded guilty of leaving the scene and received a two-year suspended sentence. The incident and its aftermath hindered his chances of becoming president--although he ran for the Democratic Party 's nominee but lost to the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter. Kennedy was known for his oratorial skills and his cry for modern American liberalism were among his best-known speeches. He championed interventionist government that emphasized economic and social justice. Over the course of his Senate career, he made efforts to enact universal health care. He was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and ranked fifth for continuous service as a senator. Although h e was often arrested for reckless driving, he was fun-loving and the "life of the party" and with his "Kennedy smile" and charming personality, he won hearts and even after marriage, women pursued him relentlessly and he often accommodated. He and Joan became parents to three children, Kara, Edward, and Patrick. Ted and Joan divorced and during the 1980s bachelor Kennedy had "female friends" from his generation. In 1991, Ted married Victoria Reggie, a talented, thirty-seven-year old lawyer and mother of two children. Victoria was with Ted when he hosted Gorbachev at the John F. Kennedy Library. He was a fine step- father, playing cards with Curran and Caroline and showing up at their sports event. Ted and Vicki were dog lovers and at the office Christmas Party, one year they dressed as Scarlet and Rhett and in 1993, they dressed as Beauty and the Beast. There were lame jokes about how he had been tamed, and "the horns he wore." Kennedy felt that "in life. . . a lot of is . . .being in the right place at the right time." "At heart he is a pragmatist," Hillary Clinton's aides advised her in a memo," and the bottom line for him is enacting health care reform." His brothers called Ted "the hardest- working one of the Kennedy clan." Jackie Kennedy Onassis wrote after Ted had walked her daughter, Caroline, down the wedding aisle: "On you, the carefree youngest brother, fell a burden a hero would have begged to have been spared." "We're all going to make it because you're always there with your love." He was buried with John and Jacqueline, and Robert, on the hillside in Arlington, between two maple trees. "He was not perfect, far from it, Ted. Jr. told the mourners. "But my father believed in redemption." Barrack Obama's eulogy conveyed a similar sentiment and a selection from one of Kennedy's favorite poems by William Wordsworth. 737 pages, including an Index. I offer combined shipping.