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In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events

With a Senate career that has spanned more than four decades, Edward M. Kennedy has become one of the strongest voices in American politics. In this, his first major policy book in more than twenty years, he argues that America is at a crossroads, having departed more deeply from its fundamental ideals than at any time in its modern history. In response to this erosion of basic values, he presents a sweeping agenda for reform and renewal, speaking to the country's most significant needs at home and abroad. National security, the war in Iraq, terrorism, and key domestic challenges such as jobs, health care, education, civil rights, energy, and the environment all receive major attention in his proposals to counter the harmful policies of the current administration, restore America's respect in the world, and create a better America here at home where democracy, individual opportunity, equal justice, and innovation can flourish.--From publisher description

This dissertation focuses on the role of representations of the past in social differentiation in Bolivia. I examine how connotations of specific representations of the past form important catalysts for organization and mobilization by political parties and social movements throughout the country. Assertions of a direct lineage to various precolonial, colonial, and post-independent peoples have played a vital role in contemporary ideas of difference between the highlands and lowlands of the country. These conceptions of ancestry are used both by political parties and social movements to construct oppositional lines of descent, and perceived differences inherited from ancestors legitimize contemporary ideas about regional variation in Bolivia. This research outlines how these divides are the discursive means through which material claims are debated. Felt historical differences are directly connected to debates over revenue from oil and gas reserves, agrarian reform, and the influence of locally and regionally elected officials in national decisions. As a result, at stake is the distribution of wealth as well as the systems of land ownership and political representation in the country. This research contributes to the anthropology of memory in three ways. First, by framing memory as a representation of the past, I demonstrate how these representations connect individuals temporally to a common ancestral heritage as well as spatially to a place. In this capacity, I argue that memory is a bridge connecting people to each other and to particular shared spaces. Second, in exploring the current role of descent in social distinctions, I show how an individual's perceived ancestry associates ancestral identification with a shared lineage, outlining a key overlap between autobiographical and collective memory. Finally, I demonstrate how power is exercised in the ability to control the connotation of important representations of the past through investigating how these representations are catalysts for organization and mobilization by political parties and social movements. In this capacity, I show that representations of the past reflect, but are also used to construct, meaningful social distinctions and differentiation in the present

Senator Edward M. Kennedy delivered the 2003-04 Peltason Lecture. In this lecture he discusses the U.S. policy toward Iraq, health care, and education. He argues that a nations values influence the policy goals its pursues.

The new policy advocated by the Eisenhower Foundation is well illustrated by the neighborhood, education, and employment opportunity extended to high-risk young people by the Dorchester Youth Collaborative in Boston. But such promising programs, and other state and local initiatives, require far more resources than they now are receiving from Washington. The challenges that lie ahead include continued deinstitutionalization of status offenders, reform of a correctional system in which minority youth are assigned to public institutions and whites are placed in private facilities, and effective control of handguns.

The new policy advocated by the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation to prevent crime is well illustrated by the neighborhood, education, & employment opportunity extended to high-risk young people by the Dorchester Youth Collaborative in Boston, Mass. Such promising programs, along with other state & local initiatives, require far more resources than they are now receiving from Washington, DC. The challenges that lie ahead include: continued deinstitutionalization of status offenders, reform of a correctional system in which minority youth are assigned to public institutions & whites are placed in private facilities, & effective control of handguns. HA