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raehink 's review for:
The Kennedys: An American Drama
by David Horowitz, Peter Collier, Christopher Hurt
Such a fascinating, influential and dysfunctional family! I enjoyed the fact that the authors didn't bash OR immortalize the Kennedy clan.
It [Chappaquiddick:] was one of the crucial moments of the Kennedy saga. All during the development of the Legacy a sort of shadow legacy of doubt and suspicion had moved along in lock step, waiting for an opening. If the Legacy held that Joseph Kennedy had been an eminent American who proved the vitality of the melting pot and the potential of the American dream, the shadow legacy insisted that he had been a bootlegger and semioutlaw who had risen by illegal leverage. If the Legacy held that Jack's life had been the remarkable triumph of disciplined grace over illness and pain, the shadow legacy said that he had been a libertine whose achievements were bought for him. If the Legacy held that Bobby had developed a moral passion that made him unlike any other politician in the history of the country, the shadow legacy claimed he had always been a sinister force and that the apparent sea change of his last years had been a facade for the ruthless ambition that had always been his sole cause.
The shadow legacy maintained that the Kennedy climb to the top had involved contempt for all the rules and a flaunting of all the mores, a Kennedy recklessness and a Kennedy arrogance toward the laws that bound everyone else. The occurrence at Dike Bridge and its aftermath seemed to give credence to it all. The family which before had been the victim of conspiracies now stood accused of perpetrating one.
It [Chappaquiddick:] was one of the crucial moments of the Kennedy saga. All during the development of the Legacy a sort of shadow legacy of doubt and suspicion had moved along in lock step, waiting for an opening. If the Legacy held that Joseph Kennedy had been an eminent American who proved the vitality of the melting pot and the potential of the American dream, the shadow legacy insisted that he had been a bootlegger and semioutlaw who had risen by illegal leverage. If the Legacy held that Jack's life had been the remarkable triumph of disciplined grace over illness and pain, the shadow legacy said that he had been a libertine whose achievements were bought for him. If the Legacy held that Bobby had developed a moral passion that made him unlike any other politician in the history of the country, the shadow legacy claimed he had always been a sinister force and that the apparent sea change of his last years had been a facade for the ruthless ambition that had always been his sole cause.
The shadow legacy maintained that the Kennedy climb to the top had involved contempt for all the rules and a flaunting of all the mores, a Kennedy recklessness and a Kennedy arrogance toward the laws that bound everyone else. The occurrence at Dike Bridge and its aftermath seemed to give credence to it all. The family which before had been the victim of conspiracies now stood accused of perpetrating one.