Catching the Wind Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975 is a history book by author Neal Gabler.
Catching the Wind is the first volume of Neal Gabler’s two-volume judge biography of Edward Kennedy. It is simultaneously a human drama, about the political history of the United States in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the study of political ethics and its role in the tortuous process of liberalism.
He is often portrayed as a reckless hedonist who brought along the fortunes of his father and his brothers to win a Senate seat at the age of 30, Ted Kennedy in Catching the Wind was one that the public rarely saw – a man who was both flanked and driven by insecurity, a man who doubted himself so much that he had sinned in order to be redeemed. Finally and by most contemporary accounts at least of the Kennedys, a lightweight one.

He lived a painful childhood, being shuffled from school to school to his mother’s whim, subjected to many humiliations — including self-inflicted ones — and forced to rise to his brother’s degree. He entered the Senate with the lowest expectations of his colleagues, a showhorse, not a pony, but he used his “ninth child’s talent” of respect and mingle with the elders of the Senate to become a promising legislator. With the death of brothers John and Robert, he is forced to become something more: the overseer of their political mission.

• Catching the Wind

• Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975
• By: Neal Gabler

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