The Dark Side of Camelot

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Author: Seymour Hersh

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Published: 1997

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This edition does not include illustrations. Sex, the Kennedys, Monroe and the Mafia; the controversial American bestseller – 'Hersh has found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge' Gore Vidal Jack Kennedy had it all. And he used it all – his father's fortune, and his own beauty, wit and power – with a heedless, reckless daring. There was no tomorrow, and there was no secret that money and charm could not hide. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh shows us a John F Kennedy we have never seen before, a man insulated from the normal consequences of behaviour long before he entered the White House. Kennedys could do exactly what they wanted, and could evade any charge brought against them. Kennedys wrote their own moral code. And Kennedys trusted only Kennedys. Jack appointed his brother Bobby keeper of the secrets – the family debt to organized crime, the real state of Jack's health,...