The Last Brother

Description for THE LAST BROTHER: THE RISE AND FALL OF TEDDY KENNEDY by Joe McGinnis: In THE LAST BROTHER, Joe McGinniss brings to startling and disturbing life the childhood, the brief triumph, and the long downward slide of the last Kennedy brother...and exposes, as never before, the chilling reality behind the glittering facade of America's First Dysfunctional Family, as well as the terrible cost of Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy's dark ambitions for this children---even the last and least of them. His book focuses in particular on the extraordinary sixties, a decade that began in glory for the family with Jack's ascension to the presidency, and ended---after the murders of Jack and Bobby, the tragedy at Chappaquidick, and their father's death---with Teddy, the last brother, standing alone in the rubble of Camelot. While THE LAST BROTHER is both shocking and newsworthy, Teddy Kennedy emerges as a curiously tragic figure, the victim of his own family, forever "the fat, awkward