Search - The Kennedy Curse : Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years

This book portrays the lives of Patrick Kennedy, Joe Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, William Kennedy Smith, JFK, JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. These profiles demonstrate the basic premise of the book - Kennedy Curse.

In this probing expose that became a national phenomemon, renowned Kennedy biographer Edward Klein - unravels one of the greatest mysteries of our time and explains why the Kennedys have been subjected to such a mind-boggling chain of calamities

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.