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From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family’s generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem.
The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and—above all else—integrity. But this carefully constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the pattern of Kennedy men physically and psychologically abusing women and girls, leaving a trail of ruin and death in each generation’s wake. Through decades of scandal after scandal—from sexual assaults to reputational slander, suicides to manslaughter—the family and their defenders have kept the Kennedy brand intact. Now, in Ask Not, bestselling author and journalist Maureen Callahan reveals the Kennedys’ hidden history of violence and exploitation, laying bare their unrepentant sexism and rampant depravity while also restoring these women and girls to their rightful place at the center of the dynasty’s story: from Jacqueline Onassis and Marilyn Monroe to Carolyn Bessette, Martha Moxley, Mary Jo Kopechne, Rosemary Kennedy, and many others whose names aren’t nearly as well known but should be.
Drawing on years of explosive reportage and written in electric prose, Ask Not is a long-overdue reckoning with this fabled family and a consequential part of American history that is still very much with us. At long last, Callahan redirects the spotlight to the women in the Kennedys’ orbit, paying homage to those who freed themselves and giving voice to those who, through no fault of their own, could not.
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“The Kennedys, Callahan asserts, are the epitome of men behaving badly. Taken as a whole, their decades-long misogynistic and malevolent exploits must be recognized as being as legacy-defining as their political successes.”
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“A lacerating exposé.”
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“Reads like a propulsive political thriller."
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“A stinging portrait of the depredations of not just John F. Kennedy but of three generations of Kennedy men.”
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“Strip[s] away the veneer of Camelot to present a searing, no–holds–barred account of scandal by zeroing in on the numerous destructions wrought by generations of Kennedy men against the women in their orbit.”
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“A grim but very compelling read."
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“A timely reminder of the dangers posed by men who crave power."
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“Callahan takes a fresh angle by focusing in on the women born or married or merely sucked up into the world of the Kennedys and the price they paid.”
— Parade
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A New York Times Bestseller
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An Amazon.com Bestseller
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A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller
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A Town & Country Magazine Pick of Summer's Best Books
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick in History
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A New York Times Bestseller in Audio
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About Maureen Callahan
Maureen Callahan is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of two nonfiction books that made the New York Times bestseller list, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century and Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed. Her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine, Spin, New York Magazine, the New York Post, and the Daily Mail, where she writes a column.
About Gabra Zackman
Gabra Zackman is an actress, author, and narrator who has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards. She was educated at Northwestern University. A classically trained actress, she has appeared in theaters all over the country as well as on film and television.