Those who dwell in the House of Kennedy work hard, live hard, and win at all costs. But just how much has it cost them? The Kennedy name is synonymous with American royalty. The family commitment to public service is legendary and enduring. But all their wild charisma has been dashed by disgrace and tragedy: Assassinations. Murder. Plane crashes. Fatal accidents. Mental illness. Drug overdoses. Alcohol abuse, and plenty of sex scandals. This family of widows and fatherless children has been cursed with nearly unimaginable losses - yet, even today, there remains a glamorous aura around the indomitable Kennedys. No. 1 bestselling author James Patterson once again tells a spellbinding story to 'maximum dramatic effect' (The Wall Street Journal) - and this one is all true.
Traces the misfortunes of the Kennedy family from the 1830s to the present to consider the author's theories about the family's biological inclinations toward trouble, citing such events as Joseph Kennedy's political activities, John Jr.'s ...
These and other tragedies have given rise to the legend of the "Kennedy Curse," but this book aims to show that there was no curse at all.
Now with an all-new bonus chapter—in the bestselling The House of Kennedy, “James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with ...
Explains why the Kennedy's have been subjected to such a mind-boggling chain of calamities. Explores the underlying pattern that governs the Kennedy Curse.Ó Offers penetrating portraits of the Irish immigrant...
Mental Illness. Drug Abuse. Car Wrecks. Cancer. With a family history like that, you'd think they were cursed. The American Camelot meets Grand Guignol in The Kennedy Curse, the latest anthology from the publishers of Big Pulp magazine!
The Kennedy Curse
Over 50 years after the Kennedy Brothers rose to political power in the United States, the name Kennedy remains the nation's most famous political name.
Walk through the evolution of mankind through the fictional eyes of Rose Fitzgerald who was arranged to be married for political means by her father to Joseph Kennedy, before the greater knowledge of the late President John F. Kennedy.
As it happened, David Kennedy had spent much of the last two years in Sacramento, isolated from the family as he ... If anything, David's ongoing turmoil stood in stark contrast to what was going on in the lives of his siblings by 1984.
The Kennedys tells the story of John, Jackie, Robert, and Ted, weaving their lives and legacies together into one narrative.