Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family

Amber Hunt · David Batcher

Dec 2014 · Rowman & Littlefield

About this ebook

 The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied. Our fascination and connection to them comes most strongly through the wives, whose pain, heartbreak, and grief seemed immensely public and lonely and personal at the same time. The Tragic Lives of the Kennedy Wives examines five of the Kennedy matriarchs: Rose, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, and Vicki through the lens of their marriages, their religion, their families, their activism and most of all, their tragedies. An important and fascinating exploration into the side of Camelot that was never quite kept from the public eye.

Ratings and reviews

Its a tale of the queens of American family. If you love the stories of the Kennedy's you will love this

About the author

Amber Hunt is a seasoned journalist who handles investigations and consumer affairs issues for The Cincinnati Enquirer. She formerly worked as a crime reporter for the Detroit Free Press and was a 2011 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she studied the importance of empathy in urban crime reporting. She has received numerous awards for her reporting from the Michigan Associated Press and won the 2005 Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. She has appeared in several television shows highlighting true crimes, including Dateline NBC and A&E’s Crime Stories. She is the author of Dead But Not Forgotten, about the murder of Barbara George, for which her husband, Michael George, was found guilty. Her latest is All-American Murder, about the case of Yeardley Love, the young University of Virginia lacrosse player who was allegedly murdered by her one-time boyfriend George Huguely. She is currently at work on her next true crime book See How Much You Love Me.
David Batcher is a writer based in Minneapolis. He studied theology and literature at St. Olaf College.