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"A unique burden was inherited by the children of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his celebrated siblings Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy. Raised in a world of enormous privilege against the backdrop of American history, this third generation of Kennedys often veered between towering accomplishment and devastating defeat. In his revelatory new book, acclaimed Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli draws back the curtain on the next generation...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
404 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Describes the life of the Kennedy family matriarch using information culled from her newly-made-public diaries and letters from defying her father's wishes and marrying Joseph Kennedy through the crushing tragedies that seem to plague her extensive family.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"With emotion and striking detail, Robert recalls both the private joys and very public pain of his childhood-the overwhelming devastation of Jack Kennedy's assassination, then, just five years later, his own father's tragic death when Robert was just fourteen. After years of struggling, Robert eventually found his calling as a fierce and passionate environmental activist. Today, like the Kennedys who came before him, he remains a staunch Democrat...
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Harper
Pub. Date
[2016]
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262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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The last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy presents an intimate portrait of her family's shared life that describes how her parents would encourage their children to discuss current events, forge a strong work ethic and appreciate the sacrifices of their ancestors.
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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xiv, 336 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Their Irish ancestry was a hallmark of the Kennedys' initial political profile, as JFK leveraged his working-class roots to connect with blue-collar voters. Today, we remember this iconic American family as the vanguard of wealth, power, and style rather than as the descendants of poor immigrants. Here at last, we meet the first American Kennedys, Patrick and Bridget, who arrived as many thousands of others did following the Great Famine-penniless...
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Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2011
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xix, 275 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Traces the author's longtime friendship and love affair with John F. Kennedy, Jr., describing their prep-school antics and shared stage productions before entering into a love affair that ended when Kennedy decided he was not ready to settle down.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
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302 pages,16 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm
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The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005
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264 p. ; 24 cm.
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Carole DiFalco Radziwill traces her life and marriage to Anthony Radziwill, President Kennedy's nephew, in an account that describes her work as a journalist, her friendship with JFK, Jr., and his wife, and her husband's struggle with terminal cancer. A memoir about a girl from a working class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill, nephew of John F. Kennedy. At the age of nineteen, she struck...
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The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs. " And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"A riveting novel following the exploits of Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, the little known and rebellious daughter of America's royal family. London, 1938. Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy has already taken England by storm, when she is presented to the king and queen. The effervescent It Girl of London society since her father was named the ambassador, Kick moves in rarified circles--dancing and drinking champagne at the hottest nightclubs and attending the horse...
14) The Kennedys
Publisher
Kennedys Production (Ontario), inc
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 6 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Television miniseries chronicling the lives of the Kennedys during the 1960s. Dramatizes the scandal, tragedy, public greatness and private frailty of America's first "royal" family during one of the most momentous decades in history.
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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xv, 767 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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A history of the intertwined personal and public lives of the Churchills and the Kennedys discusses their respective family views, how they overcame bitter differences to unite against Hitler, and the enduring influence of their collaborations.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the incandescent life force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father's acknowledged "favorite of all the children" and her brother Jack's "psychological twin." She was the Kennedy of Kennedys, sure of her privilege, magnetically charming and somehow not quite like anyone else on whatever stage she happened to grace. The daughter of the American ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Kick swept into Britain's aristocracy...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
416 pages cm
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"While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter Eunice was tapping her father?s fortune and her brothers? political power to engineer one of the great civil rights movements of our time on behalf of millions of children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Now, in Eunice, Pulitzer Prize winner Eileen McNamara finally brings Eunice Kennedy Shriver out from her brothers? shadow to show...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm
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A coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who was Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and sometime nanny for thirteen years describes her witness to significant historical events and the lessons about life and love she learned from the beloved First Lady.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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x, 403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Presents a portrait of Senator Robert Kennedy's son that discusses his reputation as a crusading environmental activist and lawyer, his drug and sex addictions, and the tragic suicide of his second wife.
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