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Customer Rating:
Summary: Unbelievable book!!
Comment: This is by far the BEST book about the young Kennedys. It tells about the history of the Fitzgeralds
and the Kennedys. Even if you haven't got the slightest interest in the Kennedys or dislike them,
READ THIS BOOK! And if you like the Kennedys YOU MUST ABSOLUTELY HAVE THIS IN YOU COLLECTION! There
are so cute and adorable photos!! Never seen them elsewhere! I really hope that Goodwin will write
another book about the following years, because this book stops in 1960. This is such a good
book!!

p.s. Buy the other edition, this one hasn't got any photos.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Herein lies a proper Spotlight Review . . . .
Comment: A note to Mr. Kerwick and to "thomasmcgauley" regarding their opinions of The Fitzgeralds and the
Kennedys: An American Saga -- to rate a book poorly based on your opinion of the author is not
necessarily the purpose of these Spotlight reviews. These reviews are intended to provide
interested readers with information regarding the quality of the work -- and that's where an opinion
is involved. It sounds like you've prejudged this novel according your dislike of the author and
subject. How about an opinion of the book? Was it well written? Most certainly. Was it
informative? You bet. Would I recommend it to someone who didn't hate the author or the Kennedys
and who wanted a riviting account of American history -- it's ups and downs and good and bad?
That's what the stars represent.

Customer Rating:
Summary: to catch a thief
Comment: I enjoyed this book, but also felt the author is a little to close to the subject, and has not much
objectivity. Also, I think, being it's a book about the Fitzgeralds, she should have cribbed a few
passages from The Great Gatsby. I would loved to have been reading about old Papa Kennedy conning
Gloria Swanson, and discovered he had "temporarily lost interest in the abortve sorrows and short
winded elations of men." If you're going to steal, Doris, might as well go the whole hog.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Remembrance of Things Past
Comment: This book is a MUST HAVE for anyone fascinated by the Kennedy family saga. This was the most
illuminating account of the family that I had ever read. Doris Kearns Goodwin, in telling the
Kennedy and Fitzgerald story, gives a voice to the Boston Irish and immigrants struggling to survive
and make their names. Ms. Goodwin is my favorite author; I recommend all of her work.

Ooops, I
seem to have been caught lifting the last reviewer's comments. Well, that isn't totally out of line
with either the author or other Kennedys who shamelessly used Ted Sorenson and others to make their
reputation with ghost written texts. Altogether though, this is quite a bit too fawning a
commentary on one of the worst tribes of scoundrels in our country's history.

Customer Rating:
Summary: The Kennedy's and the Fitzgeralds
Comment: Ms. Goodwin is a tallented writer and historian, in that the book has well documented sources, and
provides an interesting glymse into rise of this prominant family.

However Ms. Goodwin sometimes
gets a bit too mushy for my taste particulary in some of the chapters covering the Fitzgeralds.
Secondly her unwaivering support for the Family(The Kennedy's primarily) Get in the way of
objectivity particularily in reveiling the misdeeds of Josepth and Jack Kennedy.

In general a
great book which is throughly written and a must read for those wanting to known more about this
significant family.