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The House of Kennedy

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But this account is entirely based on public documents and popular secondary sources; no Kennedy “true stories” are told here that haven’t been told for decades. Readers will admire the Camelot family's rarely matched contribution to America and the indelible imprint of political service they rendered. According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry. Plus, the name seemed to go to the heads of some of the younger generation who thought that they could get away with anything with the surname ‘Kennedy’. She has faced abuse and mistreatment of many kinds over the decades, but she touches on the most appalling passages lightly—though not so lightly you don't feel the torment of the media attention on the events leading up to her divorce from Tommy Lee.

There has been so much written about the Kennedys in the last half century that when I noticed James Patterson and Cynthia Fagen had collaborated on a piece about the family, I was not sure what they could bring to the table. I avoided this book for as long as I did because I knew it would be hard to hear in vivid detail all the losses, scandals, illnesses, addictions and hardships that plagued this iconic family. This isn't exactly how history is supposed to be written The book also details the death of John F Kennedy Jr.In a vague feint of adherence to those official findings, Patterson and Fagen quote Woodward’s later statement that she eventually concluded thatp she’d mis-identified the direction of the shots, and they seem to let the whole subject go at that. Our 5 star reviews speak for themselves and we have plenty of other Clients who are extremely happy with our Service. Much of this book read like fiction and in my opinion, James Patterson should stick to fiction where he excels. The first is the presence of Patterson himself: he's written or co-written well over 200 books, but only a tiny handful of those have been nonfiction, and only one of those, 2009's The Murder of King Tut (co-written with Martin Dugard), was presented as a work of straightforward history. My lips look absolutely amazing, Carrie Anne did such an amazing job and she was so lovely and professional throughout!

I’m not a big fan of historians using that style, but Patterson is no historian, so I let that slide. re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style” ( People). When I saw this collaborative effort, I could not help but wonder if this would be a slapped-together piece, full of basic information an elementary history tome could offer. Considering what happened—assassinations, accidental deaths, all sorts of misadventures and legal scrapes, and lashings of hubris—Ted’s remark has weight, even if, as the authors breathlessly report, he got caught up in a cheating scandal that put him two years behind in school.James Patterson is phenomenal in his remarkably authentic and comprehensive telling of this most fascinating family of which our country will always seemingly be mesmerized by- the good, bad, and the ugly. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's most storied family, as told by America's most trusted storyteller. The authors seem not to push their opinions too strongly, choosing instead to present the reader with something full of information and cited to boot.

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