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.
Therese
2025-05-25
Amazing and fascinating book, I stretchlistened to it. An important piece of American history told from another perspective, delivering the truth about a family that in their way, ruled the US for many years with little or no respect for the ones they consumed in their way. This will be a classic, you will not regret reading or listening to it.
Grace
2024-08-06
An absolutely fantastic book! I highly recommend this book for everyone interesting in history, I personally didn’t start listening because of the Kennedy’s but instead of the interesting take on the history of on the hand what women in general have had to face up with, and on the other hand the bizarre individual struggles that the women in this book have had to deal with and how they have overcome their hardships and their struggles that have been produced by the people they believed they had a special relationship with, when in reality they were always in one way or another viewed as something to be dealt with and get rid of when they had served their purpose! The author of this book has done an amazing amount of research and it’s very well written! Many thanks!
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