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Summary: WONDERFUL READING!!!
Review: This book gives a complete portrait in the lives of Jackie, Ethel, and Joan. I could not put this book down. Highly recommended. FOR QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSIONS ON JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS, EMAIL ME AT MellissaLD@aol.com HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: FASCINATING
Review: I started this book not expecting much. But, before I knew it I was drawn in by the way the author brought these three women to life. They became real people, with real feelings and problems just like the rest of us; not just distant celebrities that you read about in magazines. I thought the author's use of a lot of details was absorbing--I felt as though I was there. I found I couldn't put the book down once I started. Reading this book has really re-sparked my interest in the entire Kennedy family, particulary, J.F.K. and his wife Jackie, and their children. His assassination is still a mystery, and I look foward to reading other books about this tragic period in our history.
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Summary: Wonderful insights!
Review: This book makes you FEEL the emotions of these three women. The jealosy and animosity, the heartaches they share, their husbands infidelities...I loved the photo's and only wished there were more! Mr. Taraborrelli's book was a true look inside the family that will never be forgotten.
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Summary: A surprising pleasure
Review: I would not have bought this book myself, but a friend lent me her copy. It was a fascinating look at the Kennedy wives. I was surprised by how much I did not know about these women. This book brought a little humanity and respect to my view of these women, showing the trials they not ony survived but eventually triumphed over.
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Summary: A Gracious Portrayal
Review: Although I am not a follower of the Kennedys, a friend recommended this book so I read it. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. The portrayals of the three Kennedy wives was very even and seemed unbiased. I have a little more respect for the women in that family and the trials they had to endure.
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Summary: Not that Compelling
Review: For a book that boasts about newly revealed information about the elusive private lives of the Kennedy women, I was severely disappointed. Not only did the book repeat old information in a boring and scattered way, it also seemed to "sugar-coat" the information. I have read almost every book written about Jacqueline Kennedy and was unintrigued by this one and the "details" it presented. Another asecpt of the book that was flawed was the order that the information was arranged in. The problem is that there was no order, chronological or other. For any one wanting true insight into these women's fascinating lives, my recommendation is to look elsewhere.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: As someone who's read numerous books on the Kennedy's, I can honestly say that this is a great read. There are so many new and previously unknown things revealed, that I just couldn't put it down. (I read it in 3 days.) One thing that I really liked about this book is that it reads almost like a novel, which (for me) is very appealing and makes for an easier read. Joan has always been of great interest to me, simply because she wasn't in the spotlight and wasn't publicized nearly as much as her famous sisters-in-law were. Alot of things about her life, her marriage, her relationship with the Kennedy family, and especially with Jackie and Ethel were revealed. Joan had a very sad life while in the Kennedy clan, and after finishing the book, I found myself feeling very sorry for her. Ted Kennedy was put into a completely new light. ("The Senator", by Richard Burke, doesn't begin to delve into the marital relationship he and Joan shared, possibly because the author was Ted's former assistant.) Anyone who's ever read anything about Jackie and Ethel are familiar with their personalities, but the complex nature of their relationship has never been clearly defined, until now, which alone makes it worth the read. There are many new, fresh, and exciting revelations in this book, and, as a Kennedy expert (practically!), I recommend it to anyone interested in these three fascinating women.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: Had a ball. Loved it. What fun! Can't wait for the miniseries. Hope it's as good as the book! Thanks Mr. Taraborrelli for hours of enjoyment.
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Summary: Disappointing...
Review: If one has read "The Kennedy Women" (by Laurence Leamer) or "The Other Mrs. Kennedy" (by Jerry Oppenheimer) one will recognize entire paragraphs in Tababorelli's book. There is very little that is new, and much of Taraborelli's own prose is written in a style one would more expect from a magazine reporting gossip rather than a biography to be taken seriously. Surprisingly, Taraborelli seems to be at pains to rehabilitate the image of Ethel Skakel Kennedy, RFK's widow. He especially highlights the rare occasions when Ethel extended consideration to the fragile Joan Bennett Kennedy (now the ex-wife of Senator Edward Kennedy.) All other sources conclude that Ethel tended to view herself not as a mere in-law of the famous Kennedy Family, but unlike the independent Jacqueline or the frail Joan, part of the family itself, famously, "more Kennedy than thou." Also surprising is Taraborelli's dismissal of some of the staples of the Kennedy saga. In what amounts to a literary shrug, Taraborelli asserts that there were no affairs between RFK and Marilyn Monroe, or RFK and the widowed Jacqueline Kennedy. While neither of those allegations are necessarily sacrosanct, Taraborelli does not expend much effort on his arguments that they were untrue, other than to state that it appeared that Ethel believed them to be true and that they were considered to have happened by some intimates of the Kennedys. To an extent, the book is an enjoyable, "quick read," but hardly worth the price of the hard- bound edition and the reader is left with the nagging feeling of questioning the validity of many of the scenarios and conversations.
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Summary: Interesting - but ingest with a 5 lb bag of salt
Review: This book is interesting for what it is - a piece of fluff about the lives and interrelationships of Jackie, Ethel & Joan Kennedy. The pictures are nice, but this reviewer finds the research somewhat slap-dash. There are no cited sources for many of the passages, including the description of JFK's skull at the time of the Presidential limo's arrival at Dallas Parkland Memorial Hospital. A researcher would do better to consider Mark Lane's _A Citizen's Dissent_, Jim Garrison's _On the Trail of the Assassins_, and Jim Marrs' _Crossfire: the Plot that Killed Kennedy_ or many other serious studies. This book also glosses over Ethel's family of origin - the Skakels -[See Mark Fuhrman's _Murder in Greenwich : Who Killed Martha Moxley?_] Another error, this one exhibitting a lack of geographical care or concern by the author and his editors: on page 131 of the hardcover edition, it says that that Jackie's Secret Service agent, Clint Hill, was "a former football star at Concordia College in North Dakota." Concordia College is in Moorhead, MINNESOTA (Moorhead being the 2nd half of the "other" Twin Cities: Fargo/Moorhead.) The Red River of the North splits the two cities - and states: Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota. Because I realized early in these 513 pages that the book did not comport with other verifiable sources, I read it with skepticism and, as such, it was interesting in a Danielle Steel sort of way.
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