snow day reading - my hold came in early so I‘m reading my book club pick for July.
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Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed | 
snow day reading - my hold came in early so I‘m reading my book club pick for July.
#LiteraryLadiesBookClub
pick#2 of 2025 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
pickVery interesting to read a hot take on the Kennedys that doesn‘t deify them. This story of the womanising, misogynistic, side of Kennedy privilege is grim reading, and when narrated cumulatively like this is shocking although nothing here is especially novel or new information. My only critique of this book is that I found the structure a little scattered.
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A family of philandering men and their conveyer belt of women, disgustingly passing them around, enabling one another, deeply gaslighting. Jackie, Marilyn, Carolyn, among many, many others. Very cringey information. Journalist Maureen Callahan has impressed me again! If you haven‘t read American Predator, you must.
pickHaven‘t read a book this good in a looong time. It definitely shifted my perspective and made me cry (which is rare for a nonfiction read). Will be recommending this for sure! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickYup, the Kennedy men are roundly horrible yet continue to fail upward.
She focuses on Jackie (JFK), Marilyn (JFK, RFK), Carolyn (JFK, Jr.), Mary (RFK, Jr.) Mary Jo (Teddy - horrifying!), and Joan (Teddy) along with a few lesser-known ones. Just a pattern of excused recklessness and unaccountability. We need to continue to do better demanding people - no matter their station - be held accountable for their behavior.
