The Kennedys An American Drama
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781893554313 |
Publisher: | Encounter Books |
Imprint: | Encounter Books |
Pub date: | 01 Jan 2002 |
DEWEY: | 973.9220922 |
DEWEY edition: | 19 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 522 |
Weight: | 747g |
Height: | 228mm |
Width: | 163mm |
Spine width: | 37mm |