Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

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, glamor, and--above all else--integrity. But this carefully constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the legacy of Kennedy men physically and psychologically abusing women and girls, ruining and even ending untold lives. Through decades of scandal after scandal--from sexual assaults to reputational slander, suicides to manslaughter--the family and their defenders have kept the Kennedy brand intact. Now, in Ask Not, bestselling author and journalist Maureen Callahan reveals the Kennedys' hidden history of violence and exploitation, laying bare their unrepentant sexism and rampant depravity, while also restoring these women and girls to their rightful center of the dynasty's