The Kennedys may well be the most photographed, written about, talked about, admired, hated, and controversial family in American history. But for all the words and pictures, the real story was not told until Peter Collier and David Horowitz spent years researching archives and interviewing both family members and hundreds of people close to the Kennedys. An immediate classic, The Kennedys combines intimate knowledge with a perspective free of obligations to family loyalties and myths, bringing the story of four generations of ''America's family'' fully into view. Collier and Horowitz capture the strain of ambition; the dynastic ebb and flow; the invention of a mythic identity; the corrosive underside of the dream of Camelot - developed over four generations - that led one young Kennedy to say, ''We broke the rules and in turn we were broken by them.'' The Kennedys; An American Drama is a fascinating and brilliantly comprehensive history that brings together, for the first time, all the complex strains of the story of the Kennedys' rise and fall. The authors have added new material showing the effect of the death of John F. Kennedy Jr., and the other family tragedies of the last few years, on the Kennedys and their mythic role in American life.
In this text, the Kennedys' remarkable story is retold - the clan's rise from the poverty of America's great immigrant stock to the highest heights of power and influence.
Because of his involvement in planning political assassinations , his close relationship with Mafiosi Sam Giancana , John Rosselli , and Santos Trafficante , Jr. , and his marked tendency to aggressively go his own way , William Harvey ...
Long-time Hollywood reporter and writer, Quirk has used his knowledge and friendship with the Kennedys and many film stars to create an engrossing saga of America's most revered dynasty.
More generalized information about Fitzgerald and the Irish in Boston was obtained from Thomas H. O'Connor, The Boston Irish:A Political History; Jack Beatty, The Rascal King; Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted;Thomas J. Curran, Xenophobia and ...
"The noted biographer of Lyndon B. Johnson has written the story of three generations of the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. The saga begins on a bitter cold winter's day in...
Fifty years after Bobby Kennedy's assassination, the mystique endures. Celebrate the Kennedys' legacy in this commemorative edition, PEOPLE The Kennedys.
The Kennedys: A Chronological History, 1823-present
Lawrence J. Haas explores how the Kennedy brothers reshaped America’s empire for more than six decades after World War II.
Here are the private thoughts of Kathleen, the flirtatious debutante in prewar England . . . the truth behind Joe Kennedy’s insistence that his mildly retarded daughter, Rosemary, be lobotomized . . . the real story behind Joan and ...
Each of the seven profiles demonstrates the basic premise of this book: The Kennedy Curse is the result of the destructive collision between the Kennedy's fantasy of omnipotence-an unremitting desire to get away with things that others ...