Then-Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) delivers a speech at George Washington University in 2004. (Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press) When Ted Kennedy feared that flunking a Spanish test would make ...

TED KENNEDY: A Life. By John A. Farrell. Penguin Press. 752 pages. $40. In his new biography of Ted Kennedy, John A. Farrell describes a letter Joseph Kennedy sent his youngest son telling the ...

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A new 736-page biography on the life of Ted Kennedy sheds new light on the late Senator's relationship with his eldest sister Rosemary, who underwent a disastrous lobotomy in her 20s and was cruelly ...

Of the four Kennedy brothers, Teddy was the only one who, in William Butler Yeats’ immortal words, lived to comb grey hair. And boy, did Senator Edward Kennedy live a life, packing into his 77 years a ...

An upcoming book about the last days of John F. Kennedy Jr. and wife Carolyn Bessette before their tragic death in a small-plane crash, along with Bessette’s sister, suggests that the fairy tale duo ...

John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, were facing a rocky patch in their marriage before they met an untimely end. On July 16, 1999, a single-engine private plane Kennedy Jr. was ...