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9 audio discs (11 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
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optical rdarm |
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CD audio |
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Compact discs. |
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Read by Kathe Mazur. |
| Summary |
Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, is synonymous with the Kennedy family. It is where, for a hundred years, Americas most storied political family has come to celebrate, bond, play, and, also, grieve. It is also the setting of so many events we remember: JFK giving his presidential acceptance speech, Jackie speaking with a Life magazine reporter just days after her husbands assassination, Senator Edward Kennedy seeking refuge after the Chappaquiddick crash, Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger tying the knot and even Conor Kennedy courting pop star Taylor Swift. Anyone who has lived in, worked at, or visited the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port has had a front-row view to history. Now, with extraordinary access to the Kennedy family journalist Kate Storey gives us a remarkably intimate and poignant look at the rhythms of an American dynasty. Drawing from more than a hundred conversations with family members, friends, neighbors, household and security staff, Storey delivers a rich and textured account of the Kennedys' lives in their summer refuge. From the 1920s, when Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy rented then bought a home known as The Malcolm Cottage, to today, when many Kennedys have purchased their own homes surrounding what's now called The Big House, this book delivers many surprising revelations across the decades, including what matriarch Rose considered the family's greatest tragedy, the rivalrous relationship between brothers Jack and Joe, details about Jackie's life at the compound, and previously unknown glimpses into JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette's loving and ill-fated relationship. |
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Hyannis Port.
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Kennedy family -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Hyannis Port.
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Hyannis Port (Mass.) -- History -- Sound recordings.
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| Genre |
Biographies.
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Mazur, Kathe, narrator.
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| Added Title |
Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port |
| ISBN |
9781797159072 : Blackstone Retail |
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1797159070 : Blackstone Retail |
| Music No. |
15524121 |
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