I want to thank my editor, Charles Spicer, for all his encouragement and also for his interest in following up our New York Times bestseller together, Jackie, Janet & Lee, with this work, The Kennedy Heirs. I’m so honored to be edited by Charles and published by St. Martin’s Press. Thanks also to Charles’s assistant, Sarah Grill. My appreciation, as well, to Bethany Reis, who did a wonderful job copyediting this manuscript.
I would also like to acknowledge my domestic literary agent, Mitch Douglas, for the last twenty years of his terrific representation. Mitch is a good friend as well as my agent, and I am eternally grateful to him.
And I would like to acknowledge my foreign agent, Dorie Simmonds of the Dorie Simmonds Agency in London, who has not only represented me for more than twenty years but is a trusted friend.
I would like to thank my amazing attorney, Stephen Breimer of Bloom, Hergott, Diemer, Rosenthal & LaViolette, for his dedication to my career. Special thanks also to Candice Hanson.
Thanks also to Laurie Pozmantier at WME.
Special thanks also to Jo Ann McMahon and Felinda Adlawan of Horowitz Zaron McMahon.
I also want to acknowledge my television producing partner and good friend, Keri Selig, who has been in the trenches with me now for more than six years. We’re a great team. Thanks also to her chief assistant, Kimberly Current of Intuition Productions.
I would also like to acknowledge my good friend Andy Hirsch for reading this book before publication and for his point of view. Jillian DeVaney also read it in manuscript stage and offered invaluable insight, and so I thank her as well. Barb Mueller read it in its infancy, as well, and I appreciate her, too. Thanks also to Linda DiStefano for her work as proofreader, not an easy job.
My thanks to Jonathan Hahn, my trusted friend of nearly twenty years.
Thanks to: Andy Steinlen, George Solomon, Jeff Hare, Samuel Munoz, Brandon Schmook, Richard Tyler Jordan, John Passantino, Hazel and Rob Kragulac, Andy Skurow, Brian Newman, Scherrie Payne, Freda Payne, Susaye Greene, Barbara Ormsby, Marlene Morris, Kac Young, Yvette Jarecki, Mary Downey, Laura Fagin, Corey Sheppard, Rita Bosico, Deb Armstrong, Susan Kayaoglu, Sal Pinto, Michael Coleman, Rob Kesselring, Howard Field, Stephen Kronish, Gordon Reid Wallack, Esq., and Lindsay Brie Mathers.
I have always been so blessed to have a family as supportive as mine. My thanks and love go out to: Roslyn and Bill Barnett and Jessica and Zachary; Rocco and Rosemaria Taraborrelli and Rocco and Vincent; and Arnold Taraborrelli. A big smile, also, for Spencer Douglas Taraborrelli.
I must also acknowledge those readers of mine who have followed my career over the years. I am indebted to each and every reader who has stuck by me. I am eternally grateful to anyone who takes the time to pick up one of my books and read it. Thank you so much.
All my books are written with my late parents, Rocco and Rose Marie Taraborrelli, in mind at all times. I miss them.
J. Randy Taraborrelli
January 2019