‘The graveyards of the world,” Charles de Gaulle once said, “are filled with indispensable men.” The eloquent shrug of Gallic irony aside, the living do walk away, even from the graves of the great ...

TRUE COMPASS By Edward M. Kennedy Twelve, $35, 532 pages REVIEWED BY BY CLAUDE R. MARX Listening to, or reading, the personal and professional war stories of most politicians can be a tiresome ...

Last week, my family and I were in St. Petersburg, Russia window-shopping when we found ourselves standing outside an Omega store staring at the window display: a huge portrait of President John F ...

E-book fans will have to wait for a download of Sen. Ted Kennedy's memoir. "True Compass," one of the year's most anticipated books, is scheduled to come out next week. But publisher Twelve has ...

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's disposition as a born senator came through clearly in "True Compass," says historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. "Even though he says, 'Yes I wanted to be ...

Edward M. Kennedy, who died Aug. 25, 2009 after serving 46 years in the U.S. Senate, kept careful notes and journals about his life for nearly 50 years. Now, in his posthumously published memoir True ...