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Book Review of Torn Lace Curtain: Life with the Kennedys

Torn Lace Curtain: Life with the Kennedys
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From the nine years' experience as Joe 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. As a friend he stood by the Kennedy family in the darkest hoours 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.