Ryan Paul Winn is a columnist and media critic who’s rarely without an audiobook or his earbuds. Reader John Pruden capitalizes on masterful pacing, employing inflection to dramatize the dueling party standard bearers’ stumbles and snipes.Ĭheck out more at /american-history Camelot’s End shows how two flawed men let their individual ambitions shred their party rather than allow the other to lead it. Jon Ward makes clear how each candidate sank under baggage of his own making. Read by John Pruden, with the recording produced by Hachette Audio and Blackstone AudioĪdmirers of Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy blame one another’s man for the Democratic Party’s defeat in the 1980 presidential race.
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 readers deep inside a dark chapter in American political history.Audiobook Review | Camelot’s End: Kennedy Versus Carter and the Fight That Broke the Democratic Party CloseĬamelot’s End: Kennedy Versus Carter and the Fight That Broke the Democratic Party by Jon Ward 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.Īnd, 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. It was the last gasp of an outdated system, an insider's game that old Kennedy hands thought they had mastered, and the year that marked the unraveling of the Democratic Party as America had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.Ĭamelot'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 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. The Democrats, desperate to keep power and yearning to resurrect former glory, turned to Kennedy. The Carter presidency was on life support. 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.
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