I must have checked it out three times from the library but just always found other books to read instead. I had quite uneven hair when going in the first time and she managed to make it all one colour very well, and with a colour I loved. Her anecdotes are humorous, heartfelt, and supremely captivating, recounted with the passion of a true survivor and the acerbic wit of a weathered, street-wise New Yorker. There’s not much of serious note that other biographers and historians haven’t addressed, and much better, and the authors’ intent often seems to be simply to shame their subjects: “ ‘Kennedys don’t fail,’ his uncle Ted tells him.

Every scandal, tragic loss, affair, and mishap did not get by the public without intense judgement and scrutiny.This book is the same as all the previous tomes: it seems that the reading public cannot get enough gossip about the Kennedys, even if there is never anything new.

re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style” ( People). Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The family sure has been through a lot and there have been numerous deaths, including two after the book was published (whether the book has been updated I’m not sure). There’s even a mention of the fourth generation of Kennedys with the death of one of Ethel and Robert Kennedy’s grandchildren, but the book really ends with the death of John F.Patterson and Fagen skip by the matter, though their book is chock full of other salacious and lurid moments. Visited house of Kennedy today, really disappointed with the whole experience, booked for a cut and colour, stylist was 25 minutes late starting.