Release Date For Ted Kennedy Memoir Moved Up

Posted on August 25, 2009

The release date for the new Ted Kennedy memoir, True Compass, has been moved up to September 14, according to USA Today. The original release date was in October. Senator Kennedy is undergoing treatment for brain cancer and has been unable to participate in the health care reform debate in congress. The book is drawn from almost 50 years of the senator's diaries, which begin with his brother's 1960 presidential campaign.

"We'd always hoped to publish earlier," Cary Goldstein, spokesman for book publisher Twelve, said in an e-mail to us. "The production process moved faster than expected, so we were able to shave off some time." Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer, collaborated on the memoir with Ron Powers, co-author of Flags of our Fathers, chronicling the World War II battle of Iwo Jima.
In the book, the 77-year-old Kennedy recounts the "heartbreak" of his brothers' assassinations, his more than four decades in the Senate and finding the "woman who changed his life," wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, according to the publisher's description.

There is a lot of interest in the new biography so the publisher is smart to move up the release date.