The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani: ?deeply affecting?Mr. Kennedy is not a particularly introspective writer?he acknowledges in these pages that he coped with the assassinations of his brothers Jack and Bobby by pushing his grief down, by trying to keep moving forward so as to stay ahead of the darkness and not to be engulfed by despair. But he writes in these pages with searching candor about the losses, joys and lapses of his life; the love and closeness of his family; the solace he found in sailing and the sea; his complex relationships with political allies and rivals. Mr. Kennedy's conversational gifts as a storyteller and his sense of humor?so often remarked on by colleagues and friends?shine through here, as does his old-school sense of public service and his hard-won knowledge, in his son Teddy Jr.'s words, that "even our most profound losses are survivable."