The Kennedys: An American Drama

by Peter Collier, David Horowitz

Overview

The Kennedys may well be the most photographed, written about, talked about, admired, hated, and controversial family in American history. But for all the words and pictures, the real story was not told until Peter Collier and David Horowitz spent years researching archives and interviewing both family members and hundreds of people close to the Kennedys.

An immediate classic, The Kennedys combines intimate knowledge with a perspective free of obligations to family loyalties and myths, bringing the story of four generations of “America’s family” fully into view. Collier and Horowitz capture the strain of ambition; the dynastic ebb and flow; the invention of a mythic identity; the corrosive underside of the dream of Camelot—developed over four generations—that led one young Kennedy to say, “We broke the rules and in turn we were broken by them.”

The Kennedys: An American Drama is a fascinating and brilliantly comprehensive history that brings together, for the first time, all the complex strains of the story of the Kennedys’ rise and fall. The authors have added new material showing the effect of the death of John F. Kennedy Jr., and the other family tragedies of the last few years, on the Kennedys and their mythic role in American life.

In addition to The Kennedys, Peter Collier and David Horowitz are the authors of dynastic biographies of the Fords, Roosevelts, Rockefellers, and Fondas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641771948
Publisher:	Encounter Books
Publication date:	01/19/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	528
Sales rank:	785,257
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Peter Collier was the founding editor of Encounter Books. His illustrious career as a writer and editor spanned more than half a century, beginning with Ramparts magazine in the 1960s. Among his other books are Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty, now in its third edition, Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Things in Glocca Morra, his second novel and final book.

David Horowitz is president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and founder of the online news magazine FrontPageMag.com. Among his other books are the New York Times bestseller Unholy Alliance, as well as The Professors, and his celebrated autobiography Radical Son.

Peter Collier was the founding editor of Encounter Books. His illustrious career as a writer and editor spanned more than half a century, beginning with Ramparts magazine in the 1960s. Among his other books are Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty, now in its third edition, Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Things in Glocca Morra, his second novel and final book.

David Horowitz is president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and founder of the online news magazine FrontPageMag.com. Among his other books are the New York Times bestseller Unholy Alliance, as well as The Professors, and his celebrated autobiography Radical Son.

Table of Contents

	Prologue	1
Part 1	Architect of Their Lives	5
Part 2	The Stand-In	117
Part 3	Brothers Within	231
Part 4	The Lost Boys	317
	Epilogue	405
	Afterword, 2001	414
	Bibliographic Note	424
	Reference Notes	429
	Index	514

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This epic eloquently and devastatingly chronicles the star-crossed dynasty from the Irish potato famine of the 1840s through the presidency, the assassination, and into the drugs and despair sometimes thought to characterize the latest generation.”
—Newsweek

“It is a hypnotically fascinating narrative that Peter Collier and David Horowitz have put together … a single sweeping narrative out of an extraordinarily rich and complicated story…. An irresistible epic.”
—New York Times

“It’s a saga for sure, but between these covers, the mythology of the name is blown away.”
—Forbes