Kathleen Kick Kennedy was the incandescent life-force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father’s acknowledged favorit. Despite Leaming’s extensive interviews with the surviving members of Kennedy’s “aristocratic cousinhood,” she fails to make the case that such attention to Kennedy’s life is warranted many will reach the last page wondering what was so special about Kennedy, apart from her last name. Read 'Kick Kennedy The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter' by Barbara Leaming available from Rakuten Kobo. Kennedy’s herself is killed in a plane crash in 1948 along with her married lover, Peter Fitzwilliam. Kennedy marries anyway, in 1944, but Hartington is killed in battle within a few months. To Kick, everything about this life was fun and amusing - until suddenly it was not. Kick was the girl whom all the boys fell in love with, the girl who remained painfully out of reach for most of them. : Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter (9781250071316) by Leaming, Barbara and a great selection of. Their romance distresses her Catholic parents, who can’t countenance their daughter marrying a Protestant. In a decaying world where everything was based on stultifying sameness and similarity, she was gloriously, exhilaratingly different. The British aristocratic lifestyle waned during the interwar period and the “Little American Girl” became for them a symbol of their “vanished world.” The book traces Kennedy’s relationship with various scions of the nobility in detail, building up to her growing attachment to William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington. Ambassador to Great Britain in 1938 as she’s introduced to the British aristocracy. Kennedy’s childhood is largely skipped over, with Leaming presenting the 18-year-old daughter of the new U.S. Kennedy biographer Leaming ( Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis) is unlikely to persuade readers who aren’t already Kennedy completists that their time is well spent in reading about the last decade of the short life of Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy (1920–1948).

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