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03-07-2024, 01:34 PM
David Smith in Washington
Tue 2 Jul 2024 08.02 BST
The whole lot of Kennedys were lady-killers, and they always got away with it,” baseball star Joe DiMaggio, who blamed the political dynasty for the death of his ex-wife, Marilyn Monroe, told his biographer. “They’ll be getting away with it a hundred years from now.”
Death by air crash. Death by water. Death by suicide. These are just some of the fates of women who have associated with the Kennedys as chronicled by investigative journalist Maureen Callahan in Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
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Callahan argues that the family often treated as political royalty should face a reckoning over gender. In her account, misogyny runs through the Kennedys like a stick of rock with physical and psychological abuse spanning generations. And Camelot uses its power and wealth to ruthlessly control the narrative.
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The New York-based author observes: “Any victims who dare to fight back will find themselves confronting the awesome power of the Kennedy machine, one that recasts any woman, no matter how wealthy or famous or powerful, as crazy, spiteful, vengeful; a drug addict, a viper, a seductress.
“Whatever grievous harm a Kennedy man may have done to her, the message remains clear: She was asking for it. It was her fault. Thus Camelot, that fairy tale of Kennedy greatness and noble men, still stands.”
MUCH BETTER TO READ THE FULL REVIEW: https://www.theguardian.com/books/articl...mily-women
Tue 2 Jul 2024 08.02 BST
The whole lot of Kennedys were lady-killers, and they always got away with it,” baseball star Joe DiMaggio, who blamed the political dynasty for the death of his ex-wife, Marilyn Monroe, told his biographer. “They’ll be getting away with it a hundred years from now.”
Death by air crash. Death by water. Death by suicide. These are just some of the fates of women who have associated with the Kennedys as chronicled by investigative journalist Maureen Callahan in Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
......
Callahan argues that the family often treated as political royalty should face a reckoning over gender. In her account, misogyny runs through the Kennedys like a stick of rock with physical and psychological abuse spanning generations. And Camelot uses its power and wealth to ruthlessly control the narrative.
......
The New York-based author observes: “Any victims who dare to fight back will find themselves confronting the awesome power of the Kennedy machine, one that recasts any woman, no matter how wealthy or famous or powerful, as crazy, spiteful, vengeful; a drug addict, a viper, a seductress.
“Whatever grievous harm a Kennedy man may have done to her, the message remains clear: She was asking for it. It was her fault. Thus Camelot, that fairy tale of Kennedy greatness and noble men, still stands.”
MUCH BETTER TO READ THE FULL REVIEW: https://www.theguardian.com/books/articl...mily-women
