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Books 101 - 150
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys
Goodwin Doris Kearns
1987

In its drama and scope, Doris Kearns Goodwin's "The Fitzgeralds and the Kenendys" can be considered one of the richest works of biography in the 80s.From the day in 1863 when John Francis Fitzgerald was baptized, through the memorable moment ninety-eight years later when his grandson and namesake John Fitzgerald Kennedy was inaugurated as President of the United States, the author brings us every colourful inch of this unique American tapestry.

The Good Son [JFK Jr and the Mothe He loved]
Andersen Christopher
2014

As we remember JFK Jr's remarkable life and untimely death, master biographer Christopher Andersen explores the unique connection between the extraordinary son who captivated America and the beautiful and mysterious mother who molded him into a man.
Like many parents and their children, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and JFK Jr shared and intense, tender and often tempestuous bond. It was, quite simply, the most important relationship in John's life. With riveting insight, Andersen reveals how mother and son influenced, challenged and supported each other through good times and bad, unveiling startling new details about a family we thought we already knew.

The Kennedy Case
Dallas Rita,
with Ratcliffe Jeanira

1973

In December 1961, after realizing a lifelong dream of placing a Kennedy in the White House, Joseph P.Kennedy suffered a massive stroke which left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak.
Rita Dallas became his private nurse and stayed with him until his death eight years later in November 1969. During the time that she cared for Mr Kennedy, Mrs Dallas lived with the family and shared some of the most exciting and tragic moments of recent American history.
This book is an intimately revealing study of the real people behind the legendary family that electrified the whole nation for nearly a decade.

The Kennedy Curse
Klein Edward
2003

In this book, renowned Kennedy biographer Edward Klein - a bestselling author and journalist personally acquainted with many members of the Kennedy family - unravels one of the great mysteries of our time and explains why the Kennedys have been subjected to such a mind-boggling chain of calamities.

The Kennedy Family Album
Corley Linda
Photographs by
Bob Davidoff
2008

This book presents a relaxed and unstaged side of America's First Family. From Jackie surprising her husband on the tarmac of the Palm Beach airport, to Rose leading a family sing-a-long, oto a teenage JFK Jr capsizing his sailboat, here are the Kennedys during their off horus, simply relaxing and enjoying each other's company.
Before Davidof's death in 2004, writer Linda Corley recorded his memories and the stories behind his pictures, offering insight into the family's close bonds and providing a personal look into their lives when away from the public eye.

The Kennedy Imprisonment
Wills Garry
1981

Gary Wills, both historian and journalist, exercises both crafts in turn. Sometimes gossipy, sometimes philosophical, he traces the lines of power in the Kennedy's lifes.
He looks first at the sexual dispensations and inhibitions of the family, and then at the Kennedy family's attempt to be exceptional - an exception to Irish history, to American history, to history itself.

The Kennedy men : three generations of sex, scandals and secrets

Bly Nellie
1996

Scandalistic book about Kennedy family.

The Kennedy Men 1901-1963 : the Laws of the Father

Leamer Laurence
2001
 

In this book, Laurence Leamer chronicles the Kennedy men and their struggle to create the most powerful family in the United States.

The Kennedys : A New York Times Profile

Salisbury Harrison E.
1980

This book tells the remarkable story of this outstanding family as it was reported, analyzed and photographed by America's leading newspaper, The New York Times.
Through feature articles, news items, biographical sketches, commentaries, editorials and photographic surveys - all included just as they appeared in the pages of the newspaper - THE KENNEDYS offers its readers an exciting and unusual chronicle of the family as it ascended to the center of the world stage.
Special thanks to my friend Todd Hoffman, who gave me this book!

The Kennedys - America's Emerald Kings

Maier Thomas
2003

Drawing on groundbreaking research both here and abroad, Maier shows how their Irish Catholic immigrant heritage was far more central to the Kennedy experience than they or any previous chroniclers have allowed. John F.Kennedy's historic climb to the White House  - as the first and only religious minority ever elected to the American presidency ' is only a fraction of this story.

The Kennedys : an American drama

Collier Peter & Horowitz David
1984

The Kennedys are the most photographed, written 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 family members and people close to the Kennedys. An immediate classic, this book brings the story of 4 generations of "America's family" fully into view.

The Kennedys - Portrait of a family

Avedon Richard
2007

In the early 1960s, Richard Avedon was commissioned by "Harper's bazaar" to create "Observations", a column that consisted of a series of nine photographic essays.
The subject of the first essay was John F.Kennedy and his family, who sat for formal black-and-white portraits just three weeks prior to Kennedy's presidential inauguration. Six images appeared in the magazine's February 1961 issue.
That same day, Avedon created more informal color portraits of Kennedy and his family at the Kennedy compound in Palm Beach.
During his lifetime, Richard Avedon donated more than 200 images to the Smithsonian Institution, including all of the photographs of the Kennedy family sitting for "Harper's Bazaar".
Smithsonian curator Shannon Thomas Perich has culled more than 75 images for this book, making these stunning photographs available for view for the first time.

The Kennedys -1900-1961 The Early Years

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From Joseph Kennedy's rise on Wall Street and then in government, through John Kennedy's presidency to Edward Kennedy's fall at Chappaquidick and eventual withdrawal from the 1980 presidential race, "The Kennedys" explores the building of the Kennedy legend, a story in part created and then brilliantly promoted by the family itself, a story whose afterglow  still captures the American imagination.

The Kennedys -1962-1980 The Later Years

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Part two.
Following extensive interviews with family members, friends and first-hand witness to the many chapters of the Kennedy saga, and using a wealth of still photographs and archival footage, this production is the first comprehensive documentary look at the shaping of the Kennedy fortune and dynasty by the family's patriarch and master builder, Joseph P.Kennedy. His expectations for his sons - Joseph Jr, John, Robert and Edward- would drive each of them to heights he could never each himself.

The Kennedys at War 1937-45

Renehan Edward J. Jr
2002

In an engaging narrative grounded in impeccable scolarship, Edward J.Renehan Jr provides a dramatic portrait of years marked by family tensions, heartbreaks adn heroics. It was during the second World War that tragedy began to haunt the family - Joe Jr's death, the untimely widowhood of Kathleen (a.k.a. "Kick"), Rosemary's lobotomy. But it was also the time in which John F.Kennedy rose above the structures of the clan and became his own man.

The Kennedys in Hollywood

Quirck Lawrence J.
1996

This book bridges three generations of America's royal family by comprehensively exploring their sometimes shocking, often tragic, and always fascinating infatuation with the Hollywood scene. From the expansion of Joe's business interests into film production in the 1920 and his torrid affair with actress Gloria Swanson, through Jack's numerous liaisons with such stars as Gene Tierney, Angie Dickson and Marilyn Monroe, to Maria Shriver's marriage to Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Jr's relationship with Daryl Hannah, author Larry Quirck examines the Kennedy-Hollywood connection in revealing detail.

The killing of Robert F.Kennedy

Moldea Dan E.
1995

An Investigation of Motive, Means and Opportunity.
On June 5,1968  Robert F.Kennedy was fatally shot in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; his death the following day stunned a nation still recovering from JFK's assassination five years earlier.

The Last Campaign

Clarke Thurston
2008

The definitive and exhilarating account of Robert Kennedy's 1968 campaign for President.
As Thurston Clarke recounts so effectively, Kennedy stirred huge crowds, who would often tear his clothes, and moved even the most hard-bitten of journalists and other intimate observers.

The Last Patrician

Knox Beran Michael
1998

In this provocative reassessment of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century American politics, M.Knox Beran shows how Bobby was shaped by values of the aristocratic class to which he had been brought up to belong. He was one of the patricians - until he realized that the welfare state they had helped to create at home and the empire they had helped to found abroad were undermining some of America's most cherished traditions.

The Other Man- A Love Story

Bergin Michael
2004

Her name was Carolyn Bessette and she was torn between two men: John Kennedy Jr, America's most eligible bachelor, and Michael Bergin, a male model and fast-rising international star.
When Carolyn made her choice, she broke Michael's heart - but it was not the end of their relationship... It was the beginning of the compelling final chapter in a tragic story about the human heart.

The other Mrs Kennedy

Oppenheimer
1994

Jack's wife had the beauty and the fame, but Bobby's wife had the power.
This book is an intimate and revealing look at the hidden life of Ethel Skakel Kennedy.

The politics of hate
[From John Kennedy to Bobby Kennedy]

Daily Express Special
1968

A memorial to two brothers, compiled and produced by the editorial department of Daily Express-London, on June 8,1968.

The Sins of the Father : Joseph Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded
Kessler Ronald
1996

This book is the definitive new biography of Joseph P.Kennedy. Based on extensive research and interviews with Kennedy family members and their intimates speaking on the record for the first time, it offers an outstanding personal history- and provides shocking revelations about one of the most influential figures of our time.

Times to Remember
Fitzgerald Kennedy Rose
1974

This is the book of Memoirs of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of U.S. 35th President, John F.Kennedy.

To seek a Newer World
Robert F.Kennedy
1968

This low-priced paperback book was published by Bantam Books just after the unexpected announcement of Senator Robert Kennedy's candidacy to US Presidency, and answering the increased public demand for an up-to-the-minute definition of his stand on the major campaign issues.

Torn Lace Curtain - Life with the Kennedys
Saunders Frank
1982

Frank Saunders was hired to be Joe Kennedy's personal chauffeur - but his real job was much, much more...
Someone had to ward off the press and the curious public. Celebrity guests often needed a physical escort from the house. The frayed nerves of the Senators' wives had to be calmed. The grandchildren needed babysitting. Mr Kennedy needed physical therapy, Rose Kennedy needed a scapegoat. The whole family needed a friend.
As that friend, Frank Saunders stood by the Kennedy family in the darkest hours of the tragedy-filled sixties - a decade that witnessed the assassinations of John and Robert, Ted's airplane crash, Chappaquiddick, and finally the death of the man who had hired him, Joe Kennedy.
From his nine years' experience as Mr Kennedy's "chauffeur", Frank Saunders has given us a sometimes tender, sometimes bittersweet, always poignant glimpse of the "lace curtain" Irish family that became America's royalty.

Una donna chiamata Jackie
[Biografia intima di Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis]
Heymann G.David
1994

Italian version of the book " A Woman Named Jackie".

What Jackie Taught Us
Flaherty Tina Santi
2004

This book offers Jackie's own personal lessons about how best to live one's life with poise, grace and zest - including wisdom about image and style, courage and vision, men, marriage, motherhood, and motivation - and how best apply those lessons to the way each one of us lives.

When John and Caroline lived in the White House
Coulter Laurie
2000

This evocative book combines reminiscences, memorabilia, and rarely seen photographs to bring to life the story of the most famous children ever to live in the White House. From John's first steps to his poignant farewell salute, from Caroline greeting her new baby brother to clasping her widowed mother's hand on the steps of the Capitol, the storied Kennedy era is touchingly recreated for a new generation.

Young Jackie
Morgan Bert
2002

This enchanting book presents a rare collection of photographs - many previously unpublished - of the young Jacqueline Bouvier making some of her earliest appearances in New York Society. Society photographer Bert Morgan, who started his career the year after Jacqueline was born, began taking photographs of her for the social columns of local newspapers when she was three years old and followed her from one social event to the next throughout her childhood and young adulthood.

Young Kennedys - The New Generation
Andrews Jay David
1998

If America has a royal family, it is the Kennedys. Their fabled heritage of riches, power and tragedy has forever bound them to our country's history - and its headlines. But the story of the third generation of Kennedys extends beyond headlines. How have the children of JFK and Jackie, Bobby and Ethel, Teddy and Joan, coped with their early tragedies and the relentless pressure of public - and family - expectations? How have the children of lesser-known Kennedy branches dealt with their famous last name - or with not being named Kennedy? With remarkable candour, Jay David Andrews chronicles the romances, careers, struggles and achievements of the newest members of this beloved American family - capturing their inescapable legend and undiminished mystique.

 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     

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