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You know I can’t resist a new book about the Kennedy family. Just like the British royal family, there are some good ones, some bad ones, and everything in-between. They are one of America’s royal families, good and bad combined. This new book takes a closer look at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, where Joseph Kennedy bought the summer home in the 1920s.
If you haven’t read much about the Kennedys, you’ll get a slice of their lives with the author’s expert research and writing style. Many of the stories I already knew but putting them in context to the Cape Cod experience the Kennedys had and continue to have to this day is something new. The Big House, as it was called, was home to Jack, Robert, Ted, Eunice, Jean, Pat, Joe, Kathleeen and Rosemary during their formative years. Slowly, through the years, one by one is picked off by the hands of fate; the house was where the family congregated and dealt with their grief as each tragedy befell them.
What’s new with this book is that longtime neighbors and townspeople are featured as well as some of the younger generation of Kennedys with interviews with the author. They weave a tale of what it was like growing up in the Kennedy orbit, and what it was like when Hyannis Port became the Summer White House.
The book goes beyond the Kennedy presidency, however, and delves into the next generations as well, with an emphasis on the trials and tribulations of the family. You could say this book focuses on dead Kennedys, but that’s not wholly true. There’s some mention of the younger generations successes as well.
Overall, a very good book to add to my Kennedy collection. Highly recommend!
You know I can’t resist a new book about the Kennedy family. Just like the British royal family, there are some good ones, some bad ones, and everything in-between. They are one of America’s royal families, good and bad combined. This new book takes a closer look at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, where Joseph Kennedy bought the summer home in the 1920s.
If you haven’t read much about the Kennedys, you’ll get a slice of their lives with the author’s expert research and writing style. Many of the stories I already knew but putting them in context to the Cape Cod experience the Kennedys had and continue to have to this day is something new. The Big House, as it was called, was home to Jack, Robert, Ted, Eunice, Jean, Pat, Joe, Kathleeen and Rosemary during their formative years. Slowly, through the years, one by one is picked off by the hands of fate; the house was where the family congregated and dealt with their grief as each tragedy befell them.
What’s new with this book is that longtime neighbors and townspeople are featured as well as some of the younger generation of Kennedys with interviews with the author. They weave a tale of what it was like growing up in the Kennedy orbit, and what it was like when Hyannis Port became the Summer White House.
The book goes beyond the Kennedy presidency, however, and delves into the next generations as well, with an emphasis on the trials and tribulations of the family. You could say this book focuses on dead Kennedys, but that’s not wholly true. There’s some mention of the younger generations successes as well.
Overall, a very good book to add to my Kennedy collection. Highly recommend!