I've long been a fan of the Kennedy's and this book brought me up-to-date on the family's many mishaps and adventures over the past 40-odd years. Most recently, there was John Jr's death on a flight to Hyannisport, so there were details about that, as well as Jackie's marriage to Onassis, her life after his death, the problems of Joan Kennedy, the children of Ethel and Bobby Kennedy, who had so many problems with drugs, womanizing, etc.
It was very informative, though quite long. So what did I learn? I'd forgotten Ted Kennedy challenged Jimmy Carter for the presidential nomination bid for Carter's second term ( which of course, Carter lost to Reagan), how Jackie was the strong, wise woman in the family and maintained her ties to that family, that the Jackie-Jack marriage was a good one, despite his womanizing, that the entire family is extremely close, that Eunice was a bitch and Pat was an alcoholic, that Ted and his son Ted Jr. hit on women together, that Maria Shriver is Democrat and old Arnold is Republican, that Carolyn Bessette was so much like Jackie, and that the family never ever truly recovered from those assassinations back in the sixties.
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