Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Junior, perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been doubly horrified by the familiar pattern in the tragedy. Once again, on a day that should have been full of joy and celebration, America's first family was struck by the Kennedy Curse.
In this probing expose, renowned Kennedy biographer, Edward Klein, unravels one of the great mysteries of our time, and explains why the Kennedys have been subjected to such a mind-boggling chain of calamities. The people in this book were, for the most part, on a fatal collision course with reality. Our inclinatation to idolise the Kennedy's has obscured their human attributes. 'The Kennedy Curse' is an attempt to de-mystify this family, by telling the story of how the descendents of Patrick Kennedy, a poor Irish immigrant, clawed their way to the top of American society - and in the process, made the fatal mistake of thinking of themselves as divine.
