JOANNE (joann) - , reviewed on 12/1/2006 + 412 more book reviews

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 pattrn that governs the "Kennedy Curse."
The reader is treated to penetrating portraits of the Irish immigrant Patrick Kennedy, Rose Kennedy's father. "Honey Fitz": the dynastys founding father, Joe Kennedy, and his ill-fated daughter, Kathleen, President Kennedy; accused rapist William Kennedy Smith, and the star-crossed lovers, JFK, Jr and Carolyn Bessette. Each of the seven profiles demonstrates the basic premise of this book: the "Kennedy Curse" is the result of the destructive collision between the Kennedys' fantasy of omnipotence-an unremitting desire to get away with thing that others cannot-and the cold, hard realities of life.

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