Edward Kennedy; The Late Senator from Massachusetts

EDWARD M. KENNEDY was the third longest serving Member
of the U.S. Senate in American history. Voters of Massachusetts
elected him to the Senate nine times—a record
matched by only one other Senator. The scholar Thomas
Mann said his time in the Senate was ‘‘an amazing and endurable
presence. You want to go back to the 19th century
to find parallels, but you won’t find parallels.’’ President
Obama has described his breathtaking span of accomplishment:
‘‘For five decades, virtually every majo...