Harold Meyerson reviews the Ted Kennedy memoir True Compass:
Only once in his nearly half-century as a United States senator did Ted Kennedy face a serious re-election challenge. It came from a young Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, in that most Republican of years, 1994. It came, as well, just three years after Kennedy’s night out with his nephew William Kennedy Smith and the ensuing spate of tabloid stories that depicted Kennedy as a superannuated Prince Hal. 


By the time he met Romney for the campaign’s first televised debate, the polls had the race dead even. In his memoir, True Compass, Kennedy recalls his nervousness as he was driven to Boston’s Faneuil Hall, where the debate was to be held.
