Contents

Copyright

 

Part I: Rose

1. From the Cradle

2. Between Joe and Honey Fitz

3. Nine Little Helpless Infants

4. Leaving Boston

5. Ambassadress

6. Rosemary

7. The Marchioness and the War Heroes

8. Accolades, Weddings, Births, Victories

9. The First Mother

10. “We All Shall Be Happy Together”

11. On Destiny

 

Part II: Ethel

1. A Love Story, with Detours

2. The Rise of the Skakels

3. The Girl with the Red Convertible

4. Manhattanville

5. Bobby’s Wife

6. First Births, First Deaths

7. Hickory Hill

8. A Tidal Wave

9. Run, Bobby, Run

10. A Tremendous Amount of Presence

11. Still Herself

 

Part III: Jackie

1. Black Jack and Janet

2. That Damn Vassar

3. The Career Woman and the Distinguished Gentleman

4. A Sporadic Courtship, A Celebrity Wedding

5. Jack’s Dark Side

6. The Senator’s Wife

7. The Campaigner

8. The Queen of the Restoration

9. Life at the White House, and Away

10. Patrick

11. Dallas

12. Aftermath

13. The Many Lives of Jackie Kennedy

 

Part IV: Joan

1. The Music

2. Marrying the Kennedys

3. Campaigning with the Kennedys

4. Catching Up

5. The Supportive Wife

6. The Prettiest Stand-In

7. “Nobody, Nothing”

8. Chappaquiddick

9. “The Beginning of the End”

10. Still a Kennedy

 

Part V: Vicki

1. A Different Type

2. The Womanizing Ends

3. Battling Romney

4. New Kind of Kennedy

5. Time to Sail

6. To the Grave

 

Acknowledgments

Endnotes

Photographs

Sources

Index

About the Authors