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'America America' by Ethan Canin
America America
A Novel
Ethan Canin
Random House: 466 pp., $27
It's refreshing -- and almost quaint -- to see someone try to write a Great American Novel in the 21st century. These days, writers are more apt to pursue the Great American Screenplay...Tags: Political Candidates, Politics, Theodore Dreiser, Death, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Edward Kennedy's sons say his memoir held surprises
Top of the TicketThe late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy spent his life trying to atone for his past mistakes, say his sons.... -
Edward Kennedy dies at 77; 'liberal lion of the Senate'
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat and icon of American liberal politics who was the last surviving brother of a legendary political family, died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., his family announced. He was 77.
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Ted Kennedy's milestones and missteps
For once, the extravagant elegies for a departed public figure are appropriate. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, in President Obama's words, was "the greatest United States senator of our time," at least for those who shared his passion for an activist federal...Tags: Republican Party, George H.W. Bush, John F. Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, Mitch McConnell
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Kennedy expressed remorse over Chappaquiddick in his memoir
Associated PressMassachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, in a memoir being published this month, writes of fear and remorse surrounding the 1969 car accident on Chappaquiddick Island that left a woman dead, and says he accepted the finding that a lone gunman assassinated...Tags: Death, Earl Warren Jr., Chappaquiddick Island, John F. Kennedy, Vehicles
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Kennedy suffers a seizure
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSen. Edward M. Kennedy, hospitalized Saturday after apparently suffering a seizure at his home on Cape Cod, Mass., was awake and joking with family members later in the day, a spokeswoman said. The Democratic senator is undergoing tests at...Tags: Republican Party, Massachusetts General Hospital, David Geffen, Hillary Clinton, Wages and Pensions
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Friends rally to Kennedy's side
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterStricken with a cancerous brain tumor in the autumn of his storied political career, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was facing a daunting treatment regimen with "good spirits," his doctors here said Tuesday, while his family and political friends struggled with...Tags: Joseph P. Kennedy, Science and Technology, Surgery, Biotechnology, John F. Kennedy
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Rose Kennedy, 104, Dies; Matriarch of a Dynasty
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRose Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose 10 decades of life encompassed extraordinary triumphs and epic tragedies, died Sunday at the age of 104. Mrs. Kennedy died from complications of pneumonia at 5:30 p.m. at the family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., said...Tags: Joseph P. Kennedy, Republic of Ireland, Special Olympics, Ethics, Hillary Clinton
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Kennedy Admits Personal 'Frailties,' Vows to Fight On
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn an effort to restore his damaged political standing, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) accepted responsibility Friday for "faults and frailties" in his private life and pledged to reform his lifestyle so that it will not interfere with his work....Tags: Education, Republican Party, Clarence Thomas, Sexual Misconduct, John F. Kennedy
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TODAY IN HISTORY
1883: An estimated F3 tornado was reported in the Redfield/Hitchcock areas. At least one farmhouse was destroyed, and three people were killed on one farm. 1911: Actor Hume Cronyn was born in London, Ontario, Canada. 1940: The Democratic national...Tags: Chappaquiddick Island, Politics, Vehicles, Hume Cronyn, Petroleum Industry
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FBI Files: Ted Kennedy Lived With Death Threats For Decades After Brothers' Murders
Associated Press WritersSen. Edward M. Kennedy became a magnet for extremist rage in the decades after his brothers were gunned down, living under constant, chillingly specific assassination threats of his own, according to newly released FBI documents. Five years after...Tags: Crimes, Censorship, Ku Klux Klan, Police Investigations, Lawyers
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Ethan Canin's "America, America"
It seems but a minor stretch—if that—to speculate that the seemingly redundant title of Ethan Canin's new novel, "America America," is to suggest that there are indeed second acts in American life. The book abounds with them, in the first...Tags: Crimes, Politics, Immigration, Death, Career and Workplace
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