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The sole surviving member of Camelot's first family, Caroline Kennedy, has remained largely a mistery till now. In this book Christopher Andersen draws on important sources - many speaking here for the first time- to provide a full, compelling portrait of Caroline, the young wife and mother left to carry on in her legendary family's name.

This book features a collection of stories and photos of Ted Kennedy from the pages of USA TODAY and other Gannett newspapers. The stories are grouped into categories covering different eras of the late Senator's remarkable life and career.

In this unique collection, archival materials and fresh interviews combine to create a richly detailed portrait of the man known to many as Uncle Ted. Vibrant photographs, most never before published in book form (and many unseen for decades), as well as essays and quotations illustrate the man and the statesman from a perspective that is both intimate and objective.

For most of his life, Ted Kennedy played a kaleidoscope of roles - from destructive thrill seeker to constructive lawmaker; from straying husband to devoted father and uncle.
In this book "Ted Kennedy - The dream that never died", celebrated Kennedy biographer Edward Klein at last reconciles these contradictions, painting a stunningly original, up-to-the-moment portrait of Ted Kennedy and his remarkable late-in-life redemption.
Drawing on a vast store of original research and unprecedented access to Ted Kennedy's political associates, friends and family, Klein takes the reader behind the scenes to reveal many secrets.

Here is a straightforward look, written in 1975, at one of the most controversial figure in American politics in that period, when Ted Kennedy was still hoping to become a President of United States.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. Once you can express yourself, she wrote, you can tell the world what you want from it. Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mothers favorite poems by such renowned authors as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, E.E. Cummings, and Robert Frost. The book also includes a poem written by Jacqueline Kennedy and is illustrated with photographs of the Kennedy clan.

Wonderful Photo album of Kennedy family!

Forty years ago, when the nation was coming out from under a period of mourning, Bill Adler edited "The Kennedy Wit" and in so doing helped the world remember a man and a president, not just a sorrowful event. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's death, he has edited yet another book of quotas celebrating life - this time the life of Jackie.
The accompanying DVD documentary is considered by many to be the definitive film biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and was produced by CBS News Production for Arts&Entertainment Network.

This book is a report on the work of the Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labour or Management Field, highlighting some of the typical problems and abuses that were discovered. It is based on the record of the investigations conducted by the Committee's professional staff, the sworn testimony taken before the Committee, and the official reports of the Committee to the United States Senate.
"Mr Kennedy exposed himself and his family to terrible danger for three years... an example of courage that calls for more imitation if we are to delay any surrender to the mob" [New York Times]

This book attempts to illustrate what the final hour of JFK Jr may have been like through recalling the exciting flying experience of a less prominent private pilot, with some 20 plus years of flying experience. This book should answer many of the questions about what happened that tragic night.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nellie Bly
1996

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

Laurence Leamer
2001
 

The Kennedys : A New York Times Profile

Harrison E. Salisbury
1980

The Kennedys - America's Emerald Kings

Thomas Maier
2003

The Kennedys : an American drama

Peter Collier  & Horowitz David
1984

The Kennedys - Portrait of a family

Richard Avedon
2007

The Kennedys -1900-1961 The Early Years

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The Kennedys -1962-1980 The Later Years

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The Kennedys at War 1937-45

Edward J. Jr Renehan
2002

The Kennedys in Hollywood

Lawrence J. Quirck
1996

The killing of Robert F.Kennedy

Dan E. Moldea
1995

The Last Campaign

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

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

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

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]

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.