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Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed | Maureen Callahan

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Oooh, this book was good. What a bunch of predatory, philandering, mostly mediocre ghouls.

JenReadsAlot Oh I'm looking forward to this one 2d

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Aims42

Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill | J. Randy Taraborrelli

My library used book sale haul from this morning 🤪 So much for trying to stick to a very restricted buying criteria 🤦‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ Several of these I‘ve had on my Goodreads ‘To Read‘ list for years. So, now that I have a physical copy on my Mt. TBR pile there‘s no excuse to not get to them now 😏😜LOL yeah, right - watch me 🤣

Ruthiella It‘s a never ending process! 😅 4w

TheBookHippie 🤣🫣🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼😊 4w

Tamra 😜 shelving/stacking and reading are different hobbies. 4w

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Aims42 @Ruthiella it really is 🤣 4w

Aims42 @TheBookHippie emphasis on the 🫣😆 4w

Aims42 @Tamra 🎯💯🎯💯🎯💯 so true!! 4w

TheBookHippie @Aims42 I worked our library book sale in June … 6 days- 10 hours each… I brought a bag home every day 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🫣 4w

Leftcoastzen I definitely feel your pain! I have so many in my home unread , but hard to pass up a bargain especially for a good cause! 4w

Aims42 @TheBookHippie I remember you posting pics!! You got so many great books 😍🤩 4w

Aims42 @Leftcoastzen That‘s how I justified it, the money goes to a great cause 🤓♥️ 4w

TheBookHippie @Aims42 I did! 4w

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HeatherBookNerd

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed | Maureen Callahan

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A truly heartbreaking account of the many, many women abused, neglected, raped, and killed by the Kennedy clan. Alongside the well known Jackie, Carolyn, and Marilyn are several others whose names are lost to history but whose lives were forever altered by Kennedy men. Just another sad reminder that men with wealth, power, and family clout have been getting away with the most egregious behavior for decades.

squirrelbrain Sounds fascinating, if 😠- stacking. 3mo

tpixie Well said 3mo

TrishB Have this on pile 👍🏻 3mo

HeatherBookNerd @squirrelbrain @tpixie @TrishB it‘s fascinating all right, and immensely disheartening. 3mo

tpixie @HeatherBookNerd I bet… 3mo

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Christinak

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed | Maureen Callahan

snow day reading - my hold came in early so I‘m reading my book club pick for July.

#LiteraryLadiesBookClub

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DarkMina

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed | Maureen Callahan

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#2 of 2025 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

tpixie This sounds amazing! I know of their hiding the mentally handicapped daughter(I‘m not certain of their correct word these days.) ( or did she get a lobotomy and became handicapped) , the Chappaquiddick bridge accident, & some younger generation Kennedy being accused of rape maybe back in the 1990s. It sounds like there‘s a lot more than that. 8mo

DarkMina @tpixie She had some mental disability and the lobotomy made it worse, causing her to be at the level of a young child. Joe Kennedy locked her away in a facility away from the family so she wouldn‘t embarrass them. Yeah it goes into how all the men in that family treated women. (edited) 7mo

tpixie @DarkMina yes! Thanks. I‘m going to have to read this. I told my sister about it and she‘s reading it now. 7mo

DarkMina @tpixie You‘re welcome! 7mo

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dabbe

Family Christmas | Caroline Kennedy

This. ❣️👊🏻❣️

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/caroline-robert-kennedy-trump.htm...

Julsmarshall Oof. I applaud her standing up for what is true and right. (edited) 8mo

ncsufoxes I hope they listen to her. As a mom of an Autistic child this man needs to stay far away from DHHS. I fear what his views (& possible actions) will do to the Autistic community. As well as countless other families & individuals that utilize services that fall under DHHS. 8mo

AnnCrystal Thanks for sharing this 🧐🙏🇺🇸💝. 8mo

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Amiable It‘s horrifying that it‘s even gotten this far. The man is a complete train wreck. 8mo

dabbe @Julsmarshall Amen! 🩵🩶🩵 8mo

dabbe @ncsufoxes So do I! #fingerscrossed 🩵🩶🩵 8mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🩵🩶🩵 8mo

dabbe @Amiable Must be the worm in his so-called brain. 😳 8mo

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Bzosche

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed | Maureen Callahan

They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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sdbruening

A Family Christmas: 10 Copy Signed Carton | Caroline Kennedy

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Wide variety of Christmas stories, lyrics, and poems collected here by Caroline Kennedy. The artwork felt like it was from the 1960s, so I had to keep reminding myself this was published in the 2000s. A nice collection to read around Christmastime, though. My dad got this signed by the author and kept the newspaper clipping saying when she came to town.

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ClairesReads

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed | Maureen Callahan

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Very interesting to read a hot take on the Kennedys that doesn‘t deify them. This story of the womanising, misogynistic, side of Kennedy privilege is grim reading, and when narrated cumulatively like this is shocking although nothing here is especially novel or new information. My only critique of this book is that I found the structure a little scattered.

DogMomIrene I read her book American Predator as an audiobook and she jumped around with the killer‘s timeline, which was hard to follow. But the actual story was fascinating. Stacking this one because sounds really good, but I‘ll go with print. 11mo

ClairesReads @DogMomIrene a good point! I didn‘t notice that about American Predator but I read it in print so that might be why! Definitely worth reading this 11mo

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