The No1 Sunday Times Bestseller A Waterstones Best Politics Book 2024 A Mail on Sunday 'Best
Holiday Read 2024' 'A searing exposé' Glamour 'A timely reminder of the dangers posed by men
who crave power' - Observer From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan a fierce
character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse-the family's generations-long legacy of
misogyny murder and mayhem-and the women who have paid the price for our obsession with
Camelot. For decades the Kennedy name has been synonymous with wealth power and-above all
else-integrity. But this carefully constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the Kennedy men's
legacy of physical and psychological abuse of women part of a tradition of toxic masculinity
that spans generations and has ruined untold lives. Through scandal after scandal the family
and their defenders have managed to keep this shameful story out of the spotlight. Now in Ask
Not bestselling journalist Maureen Callahan reveals the Kennedys' hidden history of abuse and
exploitation laying bare their rampant misogyny and restoring women to the center of the
dynasty's story: from Jacqueline Onassis and Marilyn Monroe to Carolyn Bessette Mary
Richardson Rosemary Kennedy and many others whose names aren't nearly as well known - but
rightfully should be. Drawing on years of fierce reportage and written in electric prose Ask
Not is a long-overdue reckoning with this fabled American family showing how the Kennedy myth
and their raw political power has enabled the clan's many predators while also silencing
generations of traumatized women and girls. At long last Callahan also redirects the spotlight
to the women in the Kennedys' orbit paying homage to those who freed themselves-and giving
voice to the countless others who could not do the same.
