Yes, this is a John Kennedy biography by that Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC's “Hardball” and author of several other books, including one titled “Kennedy and Nixon.” Matthews grew up in a Catholic ...

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 ...

Unless you were old enough to remember the mid-1960s, it might be hard to grasp the considerable impact the Kennedy family, particularly Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the widowed first lady, Jacqueline, ...

This is the 50 th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, and both the New York Times and the Washington Post devoted their Sunday book sections to reviewing old and new books about what Jill ...

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 ...

See PEOPLE's picks for the best new books about the Kennedy family Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. Much has been ...

The latest biography of Sen. Edward Kennedy — Edward Klein’s Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died — is not nearly the first book on the famed senator. Nor the deepest. Nor the best. And given the ...

Unless you were old enough to remember the mid-1960s it might be hard to grasp the considerable impact the Kennedy family, particularly Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the widowed first lady, Jacqueline, ...

When Ted Kennedy feared that flunking a Spanish test would make him ineligible to play football at Harvard, he sent a friend in his place in hopes of securing a higher score. It was the second time ...