One of the challenges of writing a biography of a very public man like Sen. Ted Kennedy is that the public already has a pretty vivid perception of him. How do you combat that and how much of a challenge is it?
It’s not really a challenge. One of the reasons you do this is that if the public perception was correct there would be no reason to move forward.
You look at public portrait, explain how it evolved, and why it evolved and look at those places where the public person and the private person do correspond, the you create your own portrait.
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