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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Senator Edward M. Kennedy died Aug. 25, it effectively signaled the end of America’s most glamorous political dynasty. The Kennedy name has long held almost mythic status in this nation’s public ...

The late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s labor-of-love memoir “True Compass” hits bookstores today amid conflicting expectations less than a month after his death from brain cancer. Patrick Brennan, a ...