Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
Of the making of Kennedy books, there is apparently no end. But according to Robert Kennedy biographer Evan Thomas, Sally Bedell Smith's Grace and Power is truly unique: "After all the hundreds of books written about JFK and Jackie, this is the one that really tells the truth, that gets behind...
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Of the making of Kennedy books, there is apparently no end. But according to Robert Kennedy biographer Evan Thomas, Sally Bedell Smith's Grace and Power is truly unique: "After all the hundreds of books written about JFK and Jackie, this is the one that really tells the truth, that gets behind the layers of gossip and conspiracy and innuendo to tell the reader what life was actually like in the White House of Jack and Jackie Kennedy. And what a life it was!" Smith, the author of the well-sourced Diana in Search of Herself, has outdone herself in uncovering the rivalries and pillow talk of the Kennedy crowd.
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Format: ebook
ASIN: 9780345484970
Publish date: 01-01-1970
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Having finished this book a short time ago, I feel as if I've been put through the wringer emotionally. The lives of President Kennedy and the First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy seem to be the stuff of which epic novels and poems are made. Yet, they were very real people faced with many difficult challen...