DYNASTIES Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed Maureen Callahan Mudlark, $35.99 Do we need another book on the Kennedys? As of this writing, Robert Kennedy jnr , son of the senator slain in 1968, is running for the presidency as an independent. Joseph Kennedy III, grandson of Robert Kennedy, was considered a potential future president when he gave the reply to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address three years ago.
Caroline Kennedy , daughter of the late John F. Kennedy, is the US ambassador to Australia. And if the adherents of QAnon, the bizarre pro-Trump conspiracy group, are to be believed, then John F.
Kennedy jnr, killed in a plane crash in 1999, is alive and will return any day to join Trump in ridding America of evil. John F. Kennedy Jr and wife Carolyn Bessette in May 1999.
They died in a plane crash months later. Credit: Reuters In short, while we may not need another book on the Kennedys, there is certainly an audience willing to consume all things Kennedy, and clear signs that the Kennedy family themselves are not going anywhere. While there may be an audience, is there anything new to say about this turbulent political dynasty? For Maureen Callahan, the answer is yes.
In Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed , Callahan places the emphasis on the women in the Kennedy story, from matriarch Rose Kennedy, through the Kennedy daughters, to the various women that the Kennedy men were involved with. Maureen Callahan’s book is a light, f.