THE LAST BROTHER

by McGinniss, Joe

1st Edition

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Book description: NY: Simon & Schuster, 1993 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover in dust jacket. 8vo (6.5 x 9.5"). 626 pp. Quarter bound in publisher's red cloth over black boards, gilt lettering on spine. Notes and Bibliography. This is an unopened copy and aside from being price-clipped, is in As New condition. AS NEW/FINE. In The Last Brother, Joe McGinnis brings to startling and disturbing life the childhood, the brief triumph, and the long downward slide of the last Kennedy brother, and exposes, as never before, the chilling reality behind the glittering façade of America's First Dysfunctional Family, as well as the terrible cost of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy's dark ambitions for his children, even the last and least of them. His book focuses in particular on the extraordinary sixties, a decade that began in glory for the family with Jack's ascension to the presidency, and ended, after the murders of Jack and Bobby, the tragedy at Chappaquidick, and their father's death, with Teddy, the last brother, standing alone in the rubble of Camelot. While The Last Brother is both shocking and newsworthy, Teddy Kennedy emerges as a curiously tragic figure, the victim of his own family, forever "the fat, awkward little boy" who was ignored by his siblings, his father and his mother, then propelled, unwilling and unprepared, into the public limelight. Searing, yet strangely moving and even sympathetic, The Last Brother presents a detailed, tragic portrait of a man at war with himself, doomed to live in the giant shadow of his brothers, trapped in the glorious but hollow Kennedy myth, longing, but unable, to escape. Ted Kennedy gave the greatest speech of his life at the 1980 Democratic Party convention. For those true believers, who heard that speech, all was forgiven. The rest of the public has not been so forgiving. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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