When We Were the Kennedys

When We Were the Kennedys
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 261
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780547630144
ISBN-13 : 054763014X
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis When We Were the Kennedys by : Monica Wood

Wood offers a moving memoir of the season in 1963 Mexico, Maine, as she, her mother, and her three sisters healed after the loss of their mill-worker father and then the nation's loss of its handsome young Catholic president.

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
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Publisher : London : W.H. Allen
Total Pages : 324
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0491023545
ISBN-13 : 9780491023542
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks by : Booton Herndon

The First Kennedys

The First Kennedys
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 411
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ISBN-10 : 9780358438724
ISBN-13 : 0358438721
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis The First Kennedys by : Neal Thompson

“Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating.”—Jon Meacham Based on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first book to explore the inspiring story of the poor Irish refugee couple who escaped famine; created a life together in a city hostile to Irish, immigrants, and Catholics; and launched the Kennedy dynasty in America. Their Irish ancestry was a hallmark of the Kennedys’ initial political profile, as JFK leveraged his working-class roots to connect with blue-collar voters. Today, we remember this iconic American family as the vanguard of wealth, power, and style rather than as the descendants of poor immigrants. Here at last, we meet the first American Kennedys, Patrick and Bridget, who arrived as many thousands of others did following the Great Famine—penniless and hungry. Less than a decade after their marriage in Boston, Patrick’s sudden death left Bridget to raise their children single-handedly. Her rise from housemaid to shop owner in the face of rampant poverty and discrimination kept her family intact, allowing her only son P.J. to become a successful saloon owner and businessman. P.J. went on to become the first American Kennedy elected to public office—the first of many. Written by the grandson of an Irish immigrant couple and based on first-ever access to P.J. Kennedy’s private papers, The First Kennedys is a story of sacrifice and survival, resistance and reinvention: an American story.

Any Bitter Thing

Any Bitter Thing
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Publisher : Chronicle Books
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9780811870689
ISBN-13 : 0811870685
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Any Bitter Thing by : Monica Wood

Richard Russo has celebrated Monica Wood's fiction as "thoroughly captivating warm and wise and beautifully written," and Andre Dubus III praised it as "luminous and graceful—entertaining yet transcendent." Any Bitter Thing, Wood's brilliant new novel, is her breakout book, a timely, gripping, and compassionate tale of family, faith, and deeply hidden truths. One of its greatest strengths is its continuous ability to defy expectations. It's not what you think. It is worse. Lizzy Mitchell was raised from the age of two by her uncle, a Catholic priest. When she was nine, he was falsely accused of improprieties with her and dismissed from his church, and she was sent away to boarding school. Now thirty years old and in a failing marriage, she is nearly killed in a traffic accident. What she discovers when she sets out to find the truths surrounding the accidentand about the accusations that led to her uncle's deathdoes more than change her life. With deft insight into the snares of the human heart, Monica Wood has written an intimate and emotionally expansive novel full of understanding and hope.

The Men We Became

The Men We Became
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 264
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781466851856
ISBN-13 : 1466851856
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis The Men We Became by : Robert T. Littell

For over twenty years Robert Littell was John F. Kennedy Jr.'s closest confidant. Now, in a beautiful and moving memoir, Littell introduces us to the private John. A story of laughter and sorrow, joy and heartbreak, The Men We Became is an unforgettable memoir. Rob Littell was a freshman at Brown when he met the young JFK, Jr. during orientation week. Although Littell came from a privileged background, it was worlds apart from the glamorous life of the son of the late President and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Eager to be accepted on his own terms, Kennedy admired Littell's irreverence toward his celebrity and they became close friends. John opened up to Littell on a very personal level, revealing the complex and sometimes tense nature of his relationships with his sister and cousins, as well as his mother's extraordinary influence on John - and how they both worked to keep it from being overbearing. John's marriage had its ups and downs and Carolyn had made enemies of some of his friends, but she was in great shape mentally and physically and they were planning to have children. Littell recounts wonderful dinners at Jacqueline Onassis's apartment where she surprised him with his favorite dinner of specially burned hamburgers and weekends at her retreat in Martha's Vineyard where she critiqued their touch football while lying on a chaise lounge, her face covered in cold cream and cucumber slices. As students, Littell and Kennedy bummed around Europe. They slept in Hyde Park, sampled the pleasures of Amsterdam, ran afoul of customs officers and almost got busted at the Ritz Hotel for smoking pot. They even shared apartments in New York City until Jackie summoned them to dinner one day and gently suggested it was time to grow up. The two went on to pursue their professional lives. John trained as a lawyer - and Littell speaks of his friend's anguish at repeatedly failing the bar - and then he founded his own political magazine, which seemed only fitting because Kennedy yearned to live up to the family name and accepted that politics would be his destiny. Later on, Littell was a part of JFK, Jr.'s secret wedding to Carolyn Bessette on Cumberland Island, Georgia, and three years later a pallbearer at his funeral. From shared adventures, private moments and lasting memories, Robert Littell offers a unique look at John F. Kennedy Jr.'s life - one that has never been seen before.

The Kennedys in the World

The Kennedys in the World
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 381
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781640123847
ISBN-13 : 1640123849
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Kennedys in the World by : Lawrence J. Haas

Lawrence J. Haas explores how the Kennedy brothers reshaped America’s empire for more than six decades after World War II.

The Nine of Us

The Nine of Us
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 198
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780062444240
ISBN-13 : 0062444247
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nine of Us by : Jean Kennedy Smith

In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy, offers an intimate and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings, guided by their parents, laughed and learned a great deal under one roof. Prompted by interesting tidbits in the newspaper, Rose and Joe Kennedy would pose questions to their nine children at the dinner table. "Where could Amelia Earhart have gone?" "How would you address this horrible drought?" "What would you do about the troop movements in Europe?" It was a nightly custom that helped shape the Kennedys into who they would become. Before Joe and Rose’s children emerged as leaders on the world stage, they were a loving circle of brothers and sisters who played football, swam, read, and pursued their interests. They were children inspired by parents who instilled in them a strong work ethic, deep love of country, and intense appreciation for the sacrifices their ancestors made to come to America. "No whining in this house!" was their father’s regular refrain. It was his way of reminding them not to complain, to be grateful for what they had, and to give back. In her remarkable memoir, Kennedy Smith—the last surviving sibling—revisits this singular time in their lives. Filled with fascinating anecdotes and vignettes, and illustrated with dozens of family pictures, The Nine of Us vividly depicts this large, close-knit family during a different time in American history. Kennedy Smith offers indelible, elegantly rendered portraits of her larger-than-life siblings and her parents. "They knew how to cure our hurts, bind our wounds, listen to our woes, and help us enjoy life," she writes. "We were lucky children indeed."

The House of Kennedy

The House of Kennedy
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Publisher : Little, Brown
Total Pages : 448
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780316494885
ISBN-13 : 0316494887
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The House of Kennedy by : James Patterson

Now with an all-new bonus chapter—in the bestselling The House of Kennedy, “James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style” (People). The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs." And they do—but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's most storied family, as told by America's most trusted storyteller.

Kennedy's Hugs

Kennedy's Hugs
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Publisher : Plain Sight Publishing
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1462119700
ISBN-13 : 9781462119707
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Kennedy's Hugs by : Jason Hansen

The story of teenager Kennedy Ann Hansen, who passed away from terminal juvenile Batten disease in 2014.

The Dark Side of Camelot

The Dark Side of Camelot
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Publisher : Back Bay Books
Total Pages : 528
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0316360678
ISBN-13 : 9780316360678
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dark Side of Camelot by : Seymour M. Hersh

This monumental work of investigative journalism reveals the Kennedy White House as never before. With its meticulously documented & compulsively readable portrait of John F. Kennedy as a man whose reckless personal behavior imperiled his presidency, The Dark Side of Camelot sparked a firestorm of controversy upon its initial publication - becoming a runaway bestseller & one of the year's most talked-about books. Now in paperback, this watershed work will continue to provoke public discussion as the debate intensifies over what constitutes proper personal & political behavior on the part of our nation's leaders.