The Kennedys: Dynasty and DisasterNow revised and fully updated, this "definitive Kennedy biography" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) includes exclusive, previously unknown information on the Palm Beach scandal, the newest revelations on the JFK and RFK assassinations, as well as the latest on America's most notorious family. The author is first cousin to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. |
Contents
The Kennedys of Dunganstown | 3 |
Coffin Ship from New Ross | 9 |
Haven on Noddles Island | 12 |
Patrick and Bridget | 16 |
The Widow of Border Street | 23 |
THE LONG CLIMB 18881960 | 29 |
The Kennedys of East Boston | 31 |
Young | 36 |
The Challenge of Civil Rights | 410 |
Their Finest Hour | 428 |
Into the Quagmire | 444 |
The Wonder of the World | 457 |
47 | 467 |
Part II | 480 |
AMLASH | 492 |
The Plans | 500 |
Enter the Fitzgeralds | 41 |
Fitzie King of the Dearos | 47 |
The Capitalist | 51 |
The Snub | 60 |
Only a Fool Holds Out for the Top Dollar | 65 |
Roosevelt Scotch and | 73 |
The Importance of Winning | 82 |
Kennedy for Roosevelt | 88 |
The Grand Design | 110 |
Jacks Turn | 132 |
Selling Jack Like Soap Flakes | 148 |
Making Money Again | 156 |
12 | 158 |
Kennedy over Lodge | 163 |
Young Jacqueline | 208 |
Up to the Auchinclosses | 228 |
The Battle for Jacqueline | 235 |
18 | 253 |
31 | 255 |
1 | 274 |
The Buildup | 278 |
The Delivery | 300 |
THE MORTAL CROWN | 311 |
36 | 313 |
41 | 330 |
Into the Bay of Pigs | 339 |
Part 1 | 363 |
The Imbroglio | 382 |
Operation Mongoose | 393 |
The Imbroglio Continued | 400 |
51 | 519 |
The Second Derailment | 524 |
A White House Wake | 534 |
POSTMORTEM | 545 |
Aftermath and Coverup | 547 |
The Mysteries | 568 |
The Widow | 604 |
The Legacies | 616 |
TOWARD RESTORATION The First Attempt 19631968 | 623 |
Blackmail Ambition and Guilt | 625 |
Counterculture for Kennedy | 638 |
The Desperate Quest | 644 |
The Fifty Phantoms | 656 |
The Third Derailment | 661 |
The Explanation | 668 |
The Family | 674 |
IMAGE IN DISTRESS 19681979 | 681 |
The Remarriage | 683 |
The Fourth Derailment | 693 |
Death of a Patriarch | 725 |
Revelations Revelations | 733 |
TOWARD RESTORATION The Second Attempt 19791982 | 749 |
The Debacle | 751 |
Rehearsal 84 | 766 |
Tho Much Is Taken Much Abides | 775 |
Milestones 19851991 | 799 |
Scandal in Palm Beach | 811 |
Acknowledgments | 875 |
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