The Kennedys: An American Drama
- ISBN-10
- 1641771941
- ISBN-13
- 9781641771948
- Series
- The Kennedys
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 528
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-01-19
- Publisher
- Encounter Books
- Authors
- Peter Collier, David Horowitz
Description
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 addition to The Kennedys, Peter Collier and David Horowitz are the authors of dynastic biographies of the Fords, Roosevelts, Rockefellers, and Fondas.
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- 2018-05-15
- 235 pages
- Paperback
- Independently Published
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- 2018-02-19
- 180 pages
- Paperback
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