Jeanne Kilpatrick

Horrifying a use

Revisado: 07-04-24

i didn't like trashing our myth, even tho' it deserves it. This wasn't an uplifting book. Author an award- winning gossip girl, awards of dubious distinction. Book accomplished its goal...to tank Bobby Jr s ambitions for the White House, as unqualified as he may be.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 2 personas

worthy of its attention...merited

Revisado: 01-15-23

i found, as Harry warned, the media had twisted much out of context cherry-picking its way through the book looking only for what it wanted: anger, bitterness, strife, family vendettas, salacious details, sloppy writing. I found much of it lyrical, charming, insightful, poignant and, of course, deeply related to unresolved childhood trauma. The monarchy holds deep fascination for many of us ...it is living history, bloody, grand, rambunctious, affecting, politicsl and social...and today's crowd is bringing it to a nexus of relevance and honesty. Is it worth funding and keeping alive with all the pomp and circumstance? Is there any reason we should listen to them or give them credence when they can behave so badly? Have we outgrown them as both archetype and influencers and embodiment of decency? Diana shook them up years ago and Harry is carrying the torch. Is Diana getting the last word? Charles and William have to fight hard to prove their ancestral value...Harry may be playing the long game here. Goodbye to an artifact?

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

deep but diificult to follow

Revisado: 08-06-22

Because the subject matter is morose, it has no ostensible momentum that sweeps you up in its highs and lows. It is a lovely story about embracing life as we choose to live it rather than hankering for another more fulfilling one. Carey Mulligan's voice-over is also undramatically limited in range as required for Nora. It is less plot-driven than philosophical, less compelling about characters so I couldn t identify or fall in love or want to stay there. Sometimes I felt inside the depression of Nora and only way to get out was to turn it off. A better visual rather than audio read I bet, with time to savor the nuggets.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

wears better as it progresses

Revisado: 06-28-22

Having devoured almost every book, magazine and video on the subject of Kennedy and his administration, life, family and times, and coming from the same context (my Dad hailed from Harvard and Harvard Law School simultaneously with Jack and Joe and sat on the bench and was dear friends with Kennedy associate and family friend Frank Morrissey and they all started in East Boston) I found some of this old wine in new bottles. Up to Ch 11 nothing new. Schlesinger, Kearns Goodwin, Sidey, White, Sorensen, Dallek, Reeves, Herschel, Burns, Powers and O Donnell et al. have said it all before. But...This is a new angle around which to focus everything...the last 100 days instead of 1000 days he himself spoke of. What interested me were quotes I'd never heard before, the predictions about Vietnam and detente with Russia and Cuba and relationship with Johnson, but I am tired of hearing about the womanizing...we know already. I guess 50 yrs after the fact a new crop of history buffs has come up who hasn t read it all so Thurston Clarke is aiming for them. The voice, however, is a bit of a drone...should ve varied according to different characters quoted to obtain nuance. Do wish for the days of this crowd of adult, not adolescent, thinkers at the helm of government tempered by war and the fear of holocaust, educated by geniuses at LSE and Oxford and the Ivy Leagues, who valued and aimed for peaceful coexistence rather than combat...what we have now are just seat warmers in Washington and the state capitals of government, so politicized and buried in the mire of lobbyists and PACs and special interests that gridlock is the norm...as we wait for the return of the best and the brightest...futilely.

Good listen...want to buy the book.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 1 persona