Just finished this book the other day while riding the stationary bike at the gym. I think this book was another one of those Barnes & Noble bargain book finds...and well the Kennedy's are interesting...for being America's fabled "royalty" to having a seemingly unrelenting string of bad family luck, their story is interesting probably because it is the most public. There are some interesting things in this book as to how Jackie basically created the "Camelot" mystique around her family after her husband's murder and how that has been a large a burden as much as a remembrance. I'd recommend this, fast read...Entertaining and interesting to see how some of the practices of the previous decades would seem appalling to us now. Things like chain smoking while pregnant and wondering why your baby had respiratory problems or getting regular shots of amphetamines from the doctor when tired or sad.
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