Sweet Caroline: Last Child of Camelot
by Christopher Andersen
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Draws on research and confidential material to profile Caroline Kennedy, examining her personal and professional life.Tags
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I've long had a sort-of joke that "what doesn't kill you makes you a Kennedy." After reading this, what doesn't kill you makes you *Caroline Kennedy*, and this book was published years before she would lose her adult daughter to cancer. I knew there was so much tragedy in her life, but she also dealt with stalkers, pushy paparazzi, societal expectations, and more, while trying to live an authentic life under the weight and microscope of her family legacy. According to this book, she seems to have done as well as possible, but I hope she has an excellent therapist because I can't imagine how she is able to balance all the work of curating the Kennedy legacy and have a life of her own. Peace to Caroline.
This was a wonderfully intimate biography of a very private woman. Christopher Andersen does a good job profiling America's favorite princess, and reveals how she became the woman she is today. A great read that was over too quickly.
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- Canonical title*
- Sweet Caroline ou La mémoire de Kennedy
- Original title
- Sweet Caroline: Last Child of Camelot
- Original publication date
- 2003 (1e édition originale américaine) (1e édition originale américaine); 2003-11 (1e traduction et édition française, Jean-Claude Lattès)) (1e traduction et édition française, Jean-Claude Lattès)
- People/Characters
- Caroline Kennedy; John F. Kennedy; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; John F. Kennedy, Jr.; Janet Auchincloss; Letitia Baldrige (show all 41); Carolyn Bessette Kennedy; Bill Clinton; Hillary Rodham Clinton; Ethel Skakel Kennedy; Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; Robert F. Kennedy; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Edward M. Kennedy; Pat Kennedy Lawford; Peter Lawford; Sydney Lawford; Aristotle Onassis; Christina Onassis; Christina Radziwill; Lee Radziwill; Anthony Radziwill; Ed Schlossberg; Rose Schlossberg; Tatiana Schlossberg; Jack Schlossberg; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Sargent Shriver; Maria Shriver; Jean Kennedy Smith; Maurice Tempelsman; Maud Shaw; David Kennedy; Stanislaus Radziwill; Marilyn Monroe; Pierre Salinger; Lynn Meredith; Sheldon Steisand; Marta Sgubin; Laura Bush; Chelsea Clinton
- Important places
- Washington, D.C., USA; Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA; Newport News, Virginia, USA; New Vernon, New Jersey, USA; Hawaii, USA (show all 7); London, England, UK
- Important events
- John F. Kennedy Assassination
- Dedication
- For Valerie, Kate and Kelly
- First words
- She is the keeper of the flame--heiress to a legacy of power, wealth, unfulfilled dreams, and unspeakable tragedy.
- Quotations
- All our lives, it's just been the three of us. --John F. Kennedy Jr., at the wedding of his sister
He and Caroline were best friends. There was a genuine love between them. --Richard Wiese, John's friend
She is like a rock. She knows that John would want her to pick up and move on with her life. -- Joe Gargan, Caroline's cousin - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)From the beginning, Caroline was--and remains--America's daughter.
- Original language*
- Anglais (Etats-Unis) (Etats-Unis)
*Some information comes from Common Knowledge in other languages. Click "Edit" for more information.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 973.922 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- Cold War, Vietnam War, Digital Age (1953-2001) Dwight D. Eisenhower, 2nd Term (1953-1961) Sputnik Crisis, Little Rock Crisis, National Aeronautics and Space Act
- LCC
- E843 .K39 .A53 — History of the United States United States Later twentieth century, 1961-2000 Kennedy's administration, 1961-November 22, 1963
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- English, French
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