The Kennedy Men 1901-1963

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: William Morrow/Harper Collins
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: First Edition

Description: 82 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In this triumphant new work already hailed as a powerful American epic, Laurence Leamer chronicles the Kennedy men and their struggle to create the most powerful family in the United States. The Kennedy Men is the first volume in a multi-generational history that will forever change the way America views its most famous family. Beginning in 1901 with twelve-year-old Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. delivering hats to Bostons social elite and ending in 1963 with the assassination of his son, President John F. Kennedy, Leamer seamlessly unites the complex strands of their economic, political, and social rise.This magnificent new volume is based on four years of interviews with Kennedy insiders and experts, as well as in-depth research including unprecedented new sources and materials: the private archives of JFKs longtime secretary Evelyn Lincoln, secret tapes JFK recorded in the Oval Office, revealing letters from the presidents doctors, Rose Kennedys never-before-heard interview tapes, and interviews with CIA operatives and Kennedy family members.Throughout, The Kennedy Men brings to life five bold, ambitious men. The Kennedy patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., was one of the richest, strongest men in Americas history. His firstborn son, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., was the heir apparent, a handsome, gregarious youth who died a heros death. John F. Kennedy picked up his brothers fallen mantle and carried it all the way to the White House. Leamer details the heartbreaking story of President Kennedys health and how it affected not only him, but also America and the world. Robert F. Kennedy, his brothers liege, was an attorney general of unprecedented power, fighting both organized crime and a secret war against Castro. Edward M. Kennedy, the youngest of that generation of Kennedy men, was a fun-loving athlete who reluctantly headed up the hard road to power.Combining powerful dramatic narrative with impeccably researched detail, Leamer illuminates the Kennedys aspirations and love of family, their accomplishments and failures, their heroism and frailty, their loves and passions, and their patriotism and selfishness. Filled with startling revelations from headline-making stories of great events within the Oval Office such as the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis to the secret untold tales of their wives and lovers-the story of the Kennedy men is here in all its triumph and tragedy. It is a spellbinding personal history of individuals and a journey of character through time told by a brilliant, masterful writer.

ISBN: 9780688163150