The Kennedy Curse, Edward Klein
The Kennedy Curse, Edward Klein
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The Kennedy Curse
Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years

Author: Edward Klein

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 8 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/22/2018

Synopsis

Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been doubly horrified by the familiar pattern in the tragedy. Once again, on a day that should have been full of joy and celebration, America's first family was struck by the Kennedy Curse.

In this probing expose, 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. Drawing upon scores of interviews with people who have never spoken out before, troves of private documents, archives in Ireland and America, and private conversations with Jackie, Klein explores the underlying pattern that governs the Kennedy Curse.

The listener is treated to seven profiles demonstrating the basic premise of this book: The Kennedy Curse is the result of the destructive collision between the Kennedy's fantasy of omnipotence—an unremitting desire to get away with things that others cannot—and the cold, hard realities of life.

About Edward Klein

Edward Klein is the author of the New York Times bestsellers All Too Human and Just Jackie. He covered John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign, served as a foreign correspondent in Asia, and was foreign editor of Newsweek. During his eleven years as editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine, it won the first Pulitzer Prize in its history. He is the author of the novel The Parachutists.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kasey on June 27, 2007

I have been fascinated by the Kennedys for years, so much so that I wrote my high school term paper on Jackie O and I cried when I heard the news about JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessett. Anyone that knows me also knows that I am obsessed with all things paranormal so when I saw this book on sale for $5 at......more

Goodreads review by Donna on November 15, 2020

Well researched and well written, but I didn't learn much more about the Kennedy family except their interesting history in Ireland. If you have read other books about the Kennedy family and its tragedies, you probably will not learn much more in this book. If this is your first book about the Kenned......more

Goodreads review by KOMET on December 29, 2016

Reading this book has been both a startling and revelatory experience. For close to 80 years, the Kennedy Family -- with President John F. Kennedy representing the apogee --- has cast a dazzling light on the U.S. (and the world, by extension). From the time the first Kennedy (Patrick Kennedy) arrive......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on March 30, 2024

I'm not entirely sure what to make of this. It feels hastily written- the author notably leaves out a chapter on Ted Kennedy's murder at Chappaquiddick, though he does mention it several times. He looks at the Kennedy Curse as something that only results in death, rather than other types of failures......more

Goodreads review by Hubert on June 30, 2017

When I first started reading this book, I felt it to be tawdry and overly sensationalist, working too hard to invoke scandal which have been rehashed in the Kennedy lore. The work contains chapter-by-chapter exegeses of the various tragedies that have befelled many of the members of the familial poli......more

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