The Kennedys may well be the most photographed, written about, talked
about, admired, hated, and controversial family in American history. But
for all the words and pictures, the real story was not told until Peter
Collier and David Horowitz spent years researching archives and
interviewing both family members and hundreds of people close to the
Kennedys.
An immediate classic, The Kennedys combines intimate knowledge with a
perspective free of obligations to family loyalties and myths, bringing
the story of four generations of "America's family" fully into view.
Collier and Horowitz capture the strain of ambition; the dynastic ebb
and flow; the invention of a mythic identity; the corrosive underside of
the dream of Camelot--developed over four generations--that led one
young Kennedy to say, "We broke the rules and in turn we were broken by
them."
The Kennedys: An American Drama is a fascinating and brilliantly
comprehensive history that brings together, for the first time, all the
complex strains of the story of the Kennedys' rise and fall. The authors
have added new material showing the effect of the death of John F.
Kennedy Jr., and the other family tragedies of the last few years, on
the Kennedys and their mythic role in American life.
In addition to The Kennedys, Peter Collier and David Horowitz are the
authors of dynastic biographies of the Fords, Roosevelts, Rockefellers,
and Fondas.
