The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family - Softcover

Laurence Leamer is best known for his trilogy on the Kennedys: The Kennedy Women, The Kennedy Men, and Sons of Camelot. His book Playing for Keeps in Washington was named a notable book of the year by The New York Times. He also wrote the bestseller Make-Believe: The Story of Nancy and Ronald Reagan.

H AND UNVARNISHED PORTRAIT OF A FASCINATING, TALENTED AND DEEPLY FLAWED FAMILY."

--Boston Herald

Laurence Leamer was granted unheralded access to private Kennedy papers, and he interviewed family and old friends, many of whom have never been interviewed before, for this incredible portrait of the women in America's "royal family." From Bridget Murphy, the foremother who touched shore at East Boston in 1849, to the intelligent, independent Kennedy women of today, Laurence Leamer now tells their stories.

Here are the private thoughts of Kathleen, the flirtatious debutante in prewar England...the truth behind Joe Kennedy's insistence that his mildly retarded daughter, Rosemary, be lobotomized...the real story behind Joan and Ted's whirlwind romance...Jackie's desire for a divorce from JFK in the 1950s...Pat Lawford's disastrous Hollywood marriage...how Caroline discovered her cousin David's death by overdose, and more.

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