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Thestory of five remarkable women at the heart of Americas royal family: Rose, the steely matriarch eho counted among her nine children three senators, an attorney general, and a president; Jackie, whose beauty and style transfixed the world, and whose grace ion the face of tragedy would inspire it; Ethel, an irrepressible prankster whose fierce competitiveness and hyper-fertility would exemplify the vifor of the Kennedy clan; Joan, the blonde bombshell whose struggles with alcoholism and a cheating husband were played out under the medias pitiless gaze; and Vicki. a powerful litigator, a Catholic feminist, and the woman who turned Ted around. They are bound together by their marriages to powerful men, membership in one of the worlds richest families, and by the many tragedies the Kennedys have survived. Yet these women are united also by their strength of character, force of personality, and intelligence with which they wielded their unmistakable power--Publishers description.;Part I. Rose. From the cradle -- Between Joe and Honey Fitz -- Nine little helpless infants -- Leaving Boston -- Ambassadress -- Rosemary -- The marchioness and the war heroes -- Accolades, weddings, births, victories -- The First Mother -- We all shall be happy together -- On destiny -- Part II. Ethel. A love story, with detours -- The rise of the Skakels -- The girl with the red convertible -- Manhattanville -- Bobbys wife -- First births, first deaths -- Hickory Hill -- A tidal wave -- Run, Bobby, run -- A tremendous amount of presence -- Still herself -- Part III. Jackie. Black Jack and Janet -- That damn Vassar -- The career woman and the distinguished gentleman -- A sporadic courtship, a celebrity wedding -- Jacks dark side -- The senators wife -- The campaigner -- The queen of the restoration -- Life at the White House, and away -- Patrick -- Dallas -- Aftermath -- The many lives of Jackie Kennedy -- Part IV. Joan. The music -- Marrying the Kennedys -- Campaigning with the Kennedys -- Catching up -- The supportive wife -- The prettiest stand-in -- Nobody, nothing -- Chappaquiddick -- The beginning of the end -- Still a Kennedy -- Part V. Vicki. A different type -- The womanizing ends -- Battling Romney -- New kind of Kennedy -- Time to sail -- To the grave.

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For Hunt, whose smile lights my way

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For Mom, Betsy, and Emily, with love

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Copyright 2015 by Amber Hunt and David Batcher

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted in writing from the publisher.

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Hunt, Amber.

The Kennedy wives : triumph and tragedy in Americas most public family / Amber Hunt and David Batcher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7627-9634-2 (alk. paper)

1. Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald, 1890-1995. 2. Kennedy, Ethel, 1928- 3. Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994. 4. Kennedy, Joan Bennett. 5. Kennedy, Victoria Reggai, 1954- 6. Kennedy family. I. Batcher, David. II. Title.

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From the Cradle Josie Fitzgerald was afraid her baby might not last the week - photo 5

From the Cradle

Josie Fitzgerald was afraid her baby might not last the week.

The summer of 1890 was brutally hot, and in the week following Rose Elizabeth Fitzgeralds birth, 284 Bostonians would diealmost half under the age of one. But Rose was as hearty a girl as a mother could hope for. She not only survived that first weekshe would live until 1995.

She would marry a man named Joe Kennedy, who would become one of the richest men in the nation. She would have nine children between 1915 and 1932, and shed raise them in homes in Boston, in New York, in Florida, and on Cape Cod. Traveling to Paris for shopping would become routine, just one of the many coping mechanisms shed use as she learned to look the other way; her husband cheated on her with hundreds of women. Shed see politically ambitious Joe named ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1938 and live in England on the brink of World War II.Shed pray the rosary and attend mass with great devotion. Shed return to the United States, the family name in tatters, after her husbands outspoken support of appeasement cost him the ambassadorship and seemingly any hope of a political future.

Shed write thank-you notes with scrupulous fidelity. Shed tragically lose two children to aviation disasters in the 1940s and see a third child institutionalized for life after a botched lobotomy. Shed hobnob with popes and drink tea with royalty. Shed see her remaining children marry, one by one, and watch as her three sons became a mid-twentieth-century political powerhouse. Shed see her Jack elected president of the United States, her Bobby named the countrys attorney general, her boy Teddy elected to the Senate. Shed advise world leaders and play hostess at the White House. Shed attend funerals for two sons, killed less than five years apart by assassins bullets, and a funeral for her husband, who died more than seven years after being immobilized by a stroke. Shed walk three miles a day and take bracing ocean swims. Shed stand by Teddy after a car accident off a bridge in Chappaquiddick left a young woman dead and his name splashed across the front of every tabloid in the world.

Shed write letters to her adult children about points of grammar. Shed watch one daughter marry a movie star and struggle with alcoholism. Shed watch another, inspired by the experience of having a special needs sister, found the Special Olympics. Shed watch her dozens of grandchildren struggle and achieve in politics, business, media, and philanthropy. Shed watch Teddy reach for the presidential nomination (and be relieved when he didnt get it). She would bow her head and accept Gods will. She would become a writer, a media personality, a symbol throughout the world of grace and fortitude in the face of tragedy, an example of service to country and humanity. She would see her name become an indelible part of American history.

In that stifling bedroom in North Boston, shy, pretty, sweet-natured Josie could not know it, but her daughter would see wonders.

Between Joe and Honey Fitz

As teenagers in the first decade of the twentieth century, Rose Fitzgerald and Joe Kennedy fell deeply in love. Roses father responded by sending her to a convent in Holland.

The protective father in question was career politician John Francis Honey Fitz Fitzgerald. Born in 1863 in Boston to Irish immigrants, Honey Fitz would come to cover the waterfront of Massachusetts politics; he served on the Boston Common Council, in the state senate, then for two terms in the US House of Representatives, then for two (noncontinuous) terms as the mayor of Boston. A short, powerfully built man with intense blue eyes, he was a born politician who loved to work a crowd. He crooned Sweet Adeline at nearly every campaign stop, was loud, brash, unrestrained on the stump, an indefatigable backslapper and handshaker. He married the lovely but much more retiring Josie Hannon in 1889 and Rose, the eldest of their six children, was born on July 22 of the following year. Josie was a deeply devout Catholic, and she inculcated strict adherence to the religion in the children, as would Rose a generation later with her nine children.

If daily mass and praying the rosary were habits Rose inherited from her mother, her father transmitted his love of campaigning. Shy Josie mostly abdicated her role as political wife in favor of raising her children. Mother had a limited capacity for the official social swirl, Rose would later write, and from an early age, the energetic, outgoing, articulate Rose served as her proxy. Ive been in the limelight since I was practically five years old, she was fond of saying. As a teenager, she was covered by the local newspapers as she joined her father on many public appearances.

When not appearing at campaign stops with her flamboyant father, she was attending a series of Catholic schools, where the nuns further instilled in her the importance of personal, daily devotion to the faith.

Roses upbringing was Victorian, an era and ethos that from our vantage seem archaic, restrictive, and conservative. Women actualized themselves, according to Victorian mores, in motherhood. The one progressive impulse in the Victorian era was the new insistence that girls should be well educatedthat they be so in order to better raise educated sons was taken for granted. It seems that Rose never seriously questioned any of this. As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, she would write in the 1960s, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman. In motherhood, she believed, was real power: the power to mold a child. Her words will influence him, not for a day or a month or a year, but for time and eternity and perhaps for future generations.

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