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(13 customer reviews) 11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Camelot rebuked,
September 9, 2011 wogan "the book reader" - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Kennedys: All the Gossip Unfit for Print (Babylon) (Hardcover)
`The Kennedys-all the gossip unfit to print" is an apt title. This is the epitome of what the scandal sheets would love to have printed years ago. It begins with Jackie's childhood, but does not cover JFK's childhood, instead it starts with his teenage years in prep school with his lifelong friend Lem Billings, who it is said was a friend in more ways than one. There is an index and several pages of quotes, such as; "the greatest twenty seconds of my life", "I never had Addison's disease", or another one from JFK "God, I hate Camelot" and an ironic dedication "Rest in Peace".
The book is set up as a series of articles, most with several black and white pictures; because of this there is some repetition of facts. The stories deal with rampant homosexualism, all sorts of sexual activities, there almost no hint of financial or political scandals.
Probably some of this is fact, some not, some exaggeration; but if what you want is one of the most gossipy reads on JFK and...Read more
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Terrible... not worth it!,
September 2, 2011 Nan Hee Kim "Nani Kim" (Seoul, South Korea) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Kennedys: All the Gossip Unfit for Print (Babylon) (Hardcover)
Yes, I bought it looking for gossips about the Kennedys but Please, this is too much. According to this book JFK was a sex maniac and should have been put behind bars. Come on now....really! I guess the author was desperate to make money.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Tabloid Rejects,
September 21, 2011 Jennifer Nijakowski "Jen-Jen" (Toledo, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Kennedys: All the Gossip Unfit for Print (Babylon) (Hardcover)
I purchased the book thinking it was an "expose" of some sort. However, after reading this book, I was wrong. The articles printed in this book seem to be hearsay and just flat out gossip. The authors seem hell-bent on labeling every person they come across as a homosexual or a cross dresser. While the stories of J. Edgar Hoover can be proven, the authors have all the Kennedy Men (and some Kennedy women), Members of the Rat Pack (including Frank Sinatra) as Swinging, Drug Addicted, Bafoons with Homosexual tendencies.
I feel that this book is just a collection of tabloid articles that were never published or just flat out "made up stories". The title says it right, "All the GOSSIP unfit for Print."
Unless you just want to be entertained, skip it.
