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Within this triumphant new work already hailed as a robust American epic, Laurence Leamer chronicles the Kennedy men and their battle to create the most effective family in the United States. The Kennedy Men is the first volume in a multi-generational history that will forever change the way America views its most well-known family. From 1901 with twelve-year-old Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. delivering hats to Boston's social elite and ending in 1963 with the assassination of his son, President John F. Kennedy, Leamer seamlessly unites the complex strands of the economic, political, and social rise.This magnificent new volume is based on four years of interviews with Kennedy insiders and experts, as well as in-depth research including unprecedented new sources and materials: the private archives of JFK's longtime secretary Evelyn Lincoln, secret tapes JFK recorded in the Oval Office, revealing letters from the president's doctors, Rose Kennedy's never-before-heard interview tapes, and interviews with CIA operatives and Kennedy members of the family.Throughout, The Kennedy Men brings to life five bold, ambitious men. The Kennedy patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., was one of the richest, strongest men in America's history. His firstborn son, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., was the heir apparent, a handsome, gregarious youth who died a hero's death. John F. Kennedy found his brother's fallen mantle and carried it all the best way to the White House. Leamer details the heartbreaking story of President Kennedy's health and how it damaged not only him, but also America and the planet. Robert F. Kennedy, his brother's liege, was an legal professional general of unprecedented power, fighting both organized crime and a secret war against Castro. Edward M. Kennedy, the youngest of that generation of Kennedy men, was a fun-loving athlete who reluctantly headed the hard road to power.Combining powerful dramatic narrative with impeccably researched detail, Leamer illuminates the Kennedys' aspirations and love of family, their accomplishments and failures, their heroism and frailty, their loves and passions, and their patriotism and selfishness. Filled up with startling revelations from headline-making stories of great events within the Oval Office such as the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis to the trick untold tales of the wives and lovers-the story of the Kennedy men is here now in all its triumph and tragedy. It is a spellbinding personal history of people and a journey of character through time told by a brilliant, masterful writer.
