
Camelot's End
Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight That Broke the Democratic Party
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From a strange, dark chapter in American political history comes the captivating story of Ted Kennedy's 1980 campaign for president against the incumbent Jimmy Carter, told in full for the first time.
The Carter presidency was on life support. The Democrats, desperate to keep power and yearning to resurrect former glory, turned to Kennedy. And so, 1980 became a civil war. It was the last time an American president received a serious reelection challenge from inside his own party, the last contested convention, and the last all-out floor fight, where political combatants fought in real time to decide who would be the nominee. It was the last gasp of an outdated system, an insider's game that old Kennedy hands thought they had mastered, and the year that marked the unraveling of the Democratic Party as America had known it.
Camelot's End details the incredible drama of Kennedy's challenge - what led to it, how it unfolded, and its lasting effects - with cinematic sweep. It is a story about what happened to the Democratic Party when the country's long string of successes, luck, and global dominance following World War II ran its course, and how, on a quest to recapture the magic of JFK, Democrats plunged themselves into an intra-party civil war.
And, at its heart, Camelot's End is the tale of two extraordinary and deeply flawed men: Teddy Kennedy, one of the nation's greatest lawmakers, a man of flaws, and of great character; and Jimmy Carter, a politically tenacious but frequently underestimated trailblazer. Comprehensive and nuanced, featuring new interviews with major party leaders and behind-the-scenes revelations from the time, Camelot's End presents both Kennedy and Carter in a new light and takes listeners deep inside a dark chapter in American political history.
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"Jon Ward captures the sound and the fury of [the 1980 Democratic Primary] struggle in Camelot's End, a fast-paced, even-handed look at Kennedy's doomed challenge to a doomed president...Ward's achievement is in showing—better than any of his predecessors -- how the two circled each other warily before their public confrontation during the presidential campaign."—The Washington Post
"A masterful account of an all but forgotten episode in modern American politics: the epic clash between Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy for the 1980 Democratic nomination. An accomplished journalist, Ward brilliantly recreates an era when, in the aftermath of Watergate and the country's defeat in Vietnam, American power and prestige were waning and the country's faith in its institutions was being sorely tested. Against this backdrop, his portrait of his two protagonists who fought for the soul of their party is sharp and insightful, capturing both the strengths and glaring flaws of both men. CAMELOT'S END is a must-read for anybody interested in American politics."—Michael Isikoff, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trum
"Well written, well reported, and compelling, Jon Ward's CAMELOT'S END paints a picture of two flawed and ambitious politicians and destiny's collision course for them. Beyond the political stakes seen by the Kennedy and Carter camps, Ward manages to draw out the drama of the philosophical choices the two represented, and the character of the Democratic Party and indeed the nation. It's a sheer joy to read."—Jake Tapper, CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent
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- Narrado por: John Dickerson
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Whistlestop tells the human story of nervous gambits hatched in first-floor hotel rooms, failures of will before the microphone, and the cross-country crack-ups of long-planned stratagems. At the bar at the end of a campaign day, these are the stories reporters rehash for themselves and embellish for newcomers. In addition to the familiar tales, Whistlestop also remembers the forgotten stories about the bruising and reckless campaigns of the 19th century.
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Lovers of the podcast this is ultimate fix!
- De killerqueen en 09-06-16
De: John Dickerson
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The Greatest Comeback
- How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
- De: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life was over, Nixon would stand taking the oath of office as 37th President of the United States. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined career and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican Party to capture the White House?
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The comeback kid
- De Jean en 07-23-14
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Tip and the Gipper
- When Politics Worked
- De: Chris Matthews
- Narrado por: Chris Matthews
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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They were the political odd couple - the two most powerful men in the country, a pair who "couldn't be more different or more the same." For six years, Matthews was on the inside, watching the evolving relationship between President Reagan and Speaker of the House O’Neill. Drawing not only on his own remarkable knowledge but on extensive interviews with those closest to his subjects, Matthews brings this unlikely friendship to life in his unique voice.
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I didn't want it to end
- De Jim en 10-06-13
De: Chris Matthews
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The Last Republicans
- Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
- De: Mark K. Updegrove
- Narrado por: Milton Jeffers
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
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In this balanced, illuminating audiobook, Updegrove tells the story of the Bushes' relationship from the birth of George W. through their postpresidential years and Jeb Bush's failed candidacy. Drawing on exclusive access and interviews with both presidents and the key people in their lives, Updegrove reveals the Bushes' views on the current state of the nation and the GOP and how the party they both led and helped build is undergoing a radical transformation.
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Father and Son Presidents
- De Jean en 02-14-18
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The Road to Camelot
- Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign
- De: Thomas Oliphant, Curtis Wilkie
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy's wily campaign for the White House, beginning with his bold failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956. A young and undistinguished junior plots his way to the presidency and changes the way we nominate and elect presidents. John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics.
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Absolutely excellent
- De T-Ward en 08-22-20
De: Thomas Oliphant, y otros
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Bobby Kennedy
- The Making of a Liberal Icon
- De: Larry Tye
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 19 h y 47 m
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History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight of a bygone era of American politics. But Kennedy's enshrinement in the liberal pantheon was actually the final stage of a journey that had its beginnings in the conservative 1950s. In Bobby Kennedy, Larry Tye peels away layers of myth and misconception to paint a complete portrait of this singularly fascinating figure.
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Absorbing
- De Jean en 01-18-17
De: Larry Tye
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Three Days in Moscow
- Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
- De: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
- Narrado por: Bret Baier
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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In Three Days in Moscow, Baier explores the dramatic endgame of America’s long struggle with the Soviet Union and President Ronald Reagan’s central role in shaping the world we live in today. On May 31, 1988, Reagan stood on Russian soil and addressed a packed audience at Moscow State University, delivering a remarkable - yet now largely forgotten - speech that capped his first visit to the Soviet capital.
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Amazing!
- De Brian W. Barton en 05-20-18
De: Bret Baier, y otros
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Ike and Dick
- Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage
- De: Jeffrey Frank
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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Richard Nixon was a young Navy officer when he first saw Dwight D. Eisenhower through a storm of tickertape as Manhattan celebrated the end of the war in Europe. Seven years later, Nixon was Eisenhower's running mate on the Republican presidential ticket-the beginning of a political and personal relationship that lasted for nearly twenty years. Despite a gulf that separated them by age and temperament, their association evolved into a collaboration that helped to shape the nation's political ideology.
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He's against NIxon
- De James A. Bretney en 01-20-14
De: Jeffrey Frank
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JFK's Last Hundred Days
- The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President
- De: Thurston Clarke
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
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A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s final days that asks what might have been. Fifty years after his assassination, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke reexamines the last months of the president’s life to show a man in the midst of great change, both in his family and in the key issues of his day: The Cold War, Civil Rights, and Vietnam, finally on the cusp of making good on his extraordinary promise.
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In Depth and Beautifully Written
- De grace en 06-03-23
De: Thurston Clarke
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The Presidents Club
- Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
- De: Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 22 h
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The Presidents Club was born at Eisenhower’s inauguration when Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover first conceived the idea. Over the years that followed - and to this day - the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world’s most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secrets, yet they are immortal rivals for history’s favor.
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Engaging subject, but fact-checking needed
- De loix en 04-25-12
De: Nancy Gibbs, y otros
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Master of the Senate
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Stephen Lang
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his 12 years in the U.S. Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. "There is something uniquely mesmerizing about the wily, combative Lyndon Johnson as portrayed by Caro," says Publishers Weekly.
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Abridgement bad
- De Shelly Brisbin en 09-05-04
De: Robert A. Caro
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The Defining Moment
- FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
- De: Jonathan Alter
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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In this dramatic and fascinating account, Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter shows how Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his first 100 days in office to lift the country from the despair and paralysis of the Great Depression and transform the American presidency.
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Very infomative, and also refreshingly honest
- De Andy en 02-19-09
De: Jonathan Alter
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Nixon's White House Wars
- The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever
- De: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 17 h y 34 m
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From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan - speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon - tells the untold story of Nixon's embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. In his inaugural address, Nixon held out a hand in friendship to Republicans and Democrats alike. But by the fall of 1969, massive demonstrations in Washington and around the country had been mounted to break his presidency.
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Interesting
- De Jean en 06-15-17
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Three Days in January
- Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
- De: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
- Narrado por: Bret Baier, Danny Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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In this debut history from one of America's most influential political journalists, Bret Baier casts the three days between Dwight Eisenhower's prophetic "farewell address" on the evening of January 17, 1961, and his successor John F. Kennedy's inauguration on the afternoon of January 20 as the final mission of one of modern America's greatest leaders.
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Gently In Manner, Strongly In Deed...
- De Gillian en 01-20-17
De: Bret Baier, y otros
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Collision 2012
- Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America
- De: Dan Balz
- Narrado por: Jeffrey Kafer
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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Four years ago, a bright young presidential candidate named Barack Obama campaigned on a theme of hope and change, and made history. Today, he finds himself in another bitter, divisive presidential race but without the buzzwords. Instead, an embattled president struggles with a dysfunctionally divided Congress, a controversial healthcare bill, a decade-long war, and a stagnant economy.
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Fascinating. Couldn't stop listening.
- De Gregory E Benoit en 07-24-16
De: Dan Balz
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Camelot's End
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- Richard
- 07-10-19
So many interesting details
I lived through this era and so I remember the major stories. But this book reminded me of many details I'd forgotten and supplied so much inside info that completed the story for me. I really enjoyed this book and the reader's terrific presentation of it. Highly recommended!
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- Jenlso
- 02-03-19
Very good book
Very good book about two flawed yet hard working men. Would recommend to anyone interested in history or American politics.
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- William Woodrow
- 02-12-19
Captivating
I am a difficult person to keep focused so I can start a book and stop listening if it slows down. Jon Ward’s book brought Carter and Kennedy so much alive I was sad when it finished. I hope Jon keeps writing.
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- jeff lewis
- 02-25-19
Great look into an interesting period
Very easy to follow narrative of the downfall and redemption of these two giants and the effects on the following decades. great performance, especially of Kennedy's voice, as well.
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- Franklin
- 09-30-23
Great journey
Excellent account of the breakup of FDR’s coalition during the 1970s under the guise of Carter and Kennedy. Well worth reading.
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- marwalk
- 07-29-19
Does character count in political office?
Covering what is now a historical period, which encompassed the presidential nomination contest between Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy, this book eerily mirrors today's Democratic party with its familiar establishment versus progressive tensions. Jon Ward provides an interwoven exposé of two very different persons, from their family backgrounds to their approach to governing. Each learned to survive in the political world he grew up in. Both were ambitious, and each pursued his advancement in different ways as fit his own personality.
The procedural changes in the early 1970s, that allowed George McGovern to secure the Democratic nomination in 1972 and Jimmy Carter to do the same in 1976, played a role in the relationship between Carter and Kennedy in 1980 when Carter was the incumbent president. Comparing those events with an earlier period in which party bosses negotiated in the proverbial smoke filled rooms, the author speculates about the downside of too much democracy, citing Donald Trump's incitement of racist and xenophobic elements to wrench the 2016 nomination from the Republican establishment. Carter had won the popular vote in the 1980 primary, and the nomination to run for re-election. Kennedy had eventually hunkered down with only the carry over staff from his father's and brother's campaigns—mostly older men who were ill equipped to manage under the new Democratic party rules. Would it have really been better to return to the old ways? All things considered, I think not! Certainly not now in the 21st Century—a democratically run primary process is the only way the Democrats can self-correct with greatly needed new blood. The skills needed are those that communicate with voters, who are not as clueless as some campaigns appear to think they are.
At different points in 1979 and 1980, the nomination and likely the presidency were Carter's or Kennedy's to lose. In the end, the both stumbled in ways that ensured neither of them would win in the general election. Kennedy's health care plans would have to wait for the election of Barack Obama in 2008. Although Carter had actually achieved the deal with Iran for the release of the hostages, he was out of office by the time they returned home and Ronald Reagan took credit for Carter's accomplishment. The whole series of episodes was like a Shakespearean tragedy—Camelot's end indeed.
Kennedy's less than stellar character was a perennial campaign issue, and in spite of his seeming preachiness Carter had his moral failings as well (though of a different nature). Today we're on the flip side of that coin with the Republican base embracing the documented sexual predator in the White House, apparently believing he will in the end protect them from the monsters they fear—while in 1980 the progressive base of the Democratic party viscerally wanted Ted Kennedy to be president in spite of his cheating in college, the tragic death of a young woman in a car he abandoned, and his infamous personal behavior somewhat similar to that of Trump today, expecting that the senator would deliver for them more progressive policies that President Carter had little enthusiasm for.
Does character count in political office? The honest answer is probably "only if it delivers the desired results." We should be candid with ourselves about that.
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- Alex Raftopoulos
- 06-01-20
Awesome book!
Really enjoyed listening to this book! Well written & well read. Very detailed account of the 1980 contest between Kennedy & Carter.
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- Mark
- 02-09-19
Worth the time!
This is an insightful and unbiased look into both Kennedy and Carter as men and historical figures.
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- Hebern
- 05-26-20
Great political drama
This book is about the 1980 primary battle between Carter and Kennedy. I learned a lot. My undergraduate degree is in political science and my senior seminar was in Campaigns and Elections. I love the game aspects of campaigns. This one goes into detail about a rare occasion in which a sitting elected President faced a legitimate primary challenge. It covered in detail the good and the bad of both men. In fact, it went into the flaws of each in much more detail than the strengths. Carter has had, in my opinion, the most successful post Presidential life of any modern President, but there is a reason he was a one term President. The book does a good job exploring why. Including how much the primary challenge played into the equation. It is also very ironic that part of the reason for the challenge was that Carter was too conservative for much of the party in 1980 and Kennedy was the more liberal alternative. After 1980, however, Kennedy would become less liberal in order to become a more productive Senator and Carter, free of the constraints of trying to get elected, became more liberal on a number of issues. There are also tidbits about Reagan’s campaign that I didn’t know such as how close ex-President Ford came to being Reagan’s running mate. It was also interesting to see the polling numbers which reflected how much less partisan in nature the country was then. Carter’s approval ratings during his presidency varied from almost 80% to less than 20%. Absent an outside force such as a war or major terrorist attack or a total economic collapse, we would not see either of those extremes currently due to the amount of partisanship. The nearly 80% did come before the hostage crisis. The less than 20% was during it, so that would count as an outside force, I guess. I really enjoyed it. As a listen the reader was a good one and appropriate for the subject matter.
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- Stephen Burd
- 07-10-24
A bit of a let down
I was hoping the book would say how the fight broke the Democratic party. It doesn't, beyond losing to Reagan. It tells of fight between Carter and Kenndey very well, buy doesn't go broader.
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