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Kick Kennedy
- The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter
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Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the incandescent lifeforce of the fabled Kennedy family, her father's acknowledged "favorite of all the children" and her brother Jack's "psychological twin". She was the Kennedy of Kennedys, sure of her privilege, magnetically charming, and somehow not quite like anyone else on whatever stage she happened to grace.
The daughter of the American ambassador to the Court of St. James', Kick swept into Britain's aristocracy like a fresh wind on a sweltering summer day. In a decaying world where everything was based on stultifying sameness and similarity, she was gloriously, exhilaratingly different. Kick was the girl whom all the boys fell in love with, the girl who remained painfully out of reach for most of them.
To Kick, everything about this life was fun and amusing - until suddenly it was not. For this is also a story of how a girl like Kick, a girl who had everything, a girl who seemed made for happiness, confronted crushing sadness. Willing to pay the price for choosing the love she wanted, she would have to face the consequences of forsaking much that was dear to her.
Best-selling and award-winning biographer Barbara Leaming draws on her unique access to firsthand accounts, extensive conversations with many of the key players, and previously unseen sources to transport us to another world, one of immense wealth, arcane rituals and rules, glamour and tragedy, that has now disappeared forever. It was a world of dukes and duchesses, of grand houses, of country house weekends, and of wild rich boys. But it was also a world of blood and war and of immeasurable loss. It was a time of complete upheaval, as reflected in the life of this most unlikely and unforgettable central character. Kick Kennedy reveals her story - that of a young girl learning about love, sex, and death, and doing it all at warp speed as the world races toward war and then reels in the war's chaotic aftermath. This is the coming-of-age story of the female star of the Kennedy family and ultimately a tragic, romantic story that will break your heart.
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Inspirational and Encouraging
- De foleya en 07-11-19
De: Chris Norton, y otros
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The Inkblots
- Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
- De: Damion Searls
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of 10 carefully designed inkblots. For years he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the aesthetic movements of the day, from futurism to dadaism. A visual artist himself, Rorschach had come to believe that who we are is less a matter of what we say, as Freud thought, than what we see.
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Memorable
- De Jason Comely en 03-04-17
De: Damion Searls
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Gentle on My Mind
- In Sickness and in Health with Glen Campbell
- De: Kim Campbell
- Narrado por: Kim Campbell
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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Kim Campbell was a fresh-faced 22-year-old dancer at Radio City Music Hall when a friend introduced her to Glen Campbell, the chart-topping, Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated entertainer. The two performers from small Southern towns quickly fell in love, a bond that produced a 34-year marriage and three children. In Gentle on My Mind, Kim tells the complete, no-holds-barred story of their relationship, recounting the highest of highs - award shows, acclaimed performances, the birth of their children, encounters with Mick Fleetwood, Waylon Jennings, and others.
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It’s an interesting story, but...
- De DEB en 01-18-21
De: Kim Campbell
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What We Carry
- A Memoir
- De: Maya Shanbhag Lang
- Narrado por: Maya Shanbhag Lang
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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Maya Shanbhag Lang grew up idolizing her brilliant mother, an accomplished physician who immigrated to the United States from India and completed her residency all while raising her children and keeping a traditional Indian home. Maya’s mother had always been a source of support - until Maya became a mother herself. Then the parent who had once been so capable and attentive became suddenly and inexplicably unavailable.
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Honest and deep
- De Sireesha Gullapalli en 02-18-21
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Marilyn Monroe
- De: Barbara Leaming
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will totally change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order.
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Moving and intelligent
- De NYCLady en 05-05-24
De: Barbara Leaming
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Brothers on Three
- A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana
- De: Abe Streep
- Narrado por: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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In Brothers on Three, we follow Phil and Will, along with their teammates, coaches, and families, as they balance the pressures of adolescence, shoulder the dreams of their community, and chart their own individual courses for the future. Brothers on Three is not simply a story about high school basketball, about state championships and a winning team. It is a book about community, and it is about boys on the cusp of adulthood, finding their way through the intersecting worlds they inhabit and forging their own paths to personhood.
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Reservation disadvantages
- De Barb en 10-27-23
De: Abe Streep
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Hitler's Forgotten Children
- A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity
- De: Ingrid von Oelhafen, Tim Tate
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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Hitler’s Forgotten Children is both a harrowing personal memoir and a devastating investigation into the awful crimes and monstrous scope of the Lebensborn program in World War 2. Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half a million children from across Europe. Through a process called Germanization, they were to become the next generation of the Aryan master race in the second phase of the Final Solution.
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Interesting story.
- De Brad Bowles en 04-08-16
De: Ingrid von Oelhafen, y otros
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Love and Hate in Jamestown
- John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation
- De: David A. Price
- Narrado por: Josh Innerst
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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Drawing on period letters and chronicles, and on the papers of the Virginia Company - which financed the settlement of Jamestown - David Price tells a tale of cowardice and courage, stupidity and brilliance, tragedy and costly triumph. He takes us into the day-to-day existence of the English men and women whose charge was to find gold and a route to the Orient, and who found, instead, hardship and wretched misery. Death, in fact, became the settlers' most faithful companion, and their infighting was ceaseless.
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Five Star History!
- De Damian en 08-13-23
De: David A. Price
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Master of Ceremonies
- A Memoir
- De: Joel Grey
- Narrado por: Joel Grey
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1932, Joel Grey began his life in the theater at the age of nine, starting in children's theater and then moving to the main stage. He was hooked, and his seven-decades-long career charts the evolution of American entertainment - from Vaudeville performances with his father, Mickey Katz, to the seedy, gangster-filled nightclubs of the '40s.
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One for his fans only
- De RICK en 02-21-16
De: Joel Grey
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If This Was Happiness
- A Biography of Rita Hayworth
- De: Barbara Leaming
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
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Rita Hayworth was the epitome of 1940s glamour. A legendary "Love Goddess", she was a huge box-office star, and her sultry beauty and sensational figure made her into one of Hollywood's greatest sex-symbols: a pin-up so incendiary that GIs pasted it on to the first atom bomb ever detonated.
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Sad but true
- De Placeholder en 10-19-14
De: Barbara Leaming
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The Second Most Powerful Man in the World
- The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff
- De: Phillips Payson O'Brien
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 19 h y 58 m
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Aside from FDR, no American did more to shape World War II than Admiral William D. Leahy - not Douglas MacArthur, not Dwight Eisenhower, and not even the legendary George Marshall. No man, including Harry Hopkins, was closer to Roosevelt, nor had earned his blind faith, like Leahy. Through the course of the war, constantly at the president's side and advising him on daily decisions, Leahy became the second most powerful man in the world.
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Great bio.
- De Amazon Customer en 05-18-19
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Murder at the Mission
- A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
- De: Blaine Harden
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert members of the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribes. Both would fail spectacularly as missionaries.
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Good history; wanted more indigenous perspective.
- De Anonymous User en 07-06-21
De: Blaine Harden
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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
- A Brief Account of a Long Life
- De: Gretchen Rubin
- Narrado por: Gretchen Rubin
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
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Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank - Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war. Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction, and an investigation of the contradictions and complexities that haunt biography.
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Great Content
- De Sean P. Whiteley en 07-01-20
De: Gretchen Rubin
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Kick Kennedy
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- Anne M. Weir
- 06-05-19
Great book
Loved this book. So very interesting with lots of history but also the memories of those who were there & loved Kick. My mom is going to listen to next.
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- Karen Vincent
- 05-02-16
Not what I had hoped for.
What did you like best about Kick Kennedy? What did you like least?
I have read other books about her in the past. This one portrayed her as fairly self-centered as well as self-absorbed.
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
Not much.
How could the performance have been better?
The narrator was awful. Each mispronounced word made me cringe. One in particular was the word "clique" which she repeatedly pronounced as "clack". I can't even write down the way she destroyed the work "apocalypse" - it was bizarre!
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
No
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- Maggie
- 04-22-16
A true-life Jane Austen story
Eliza Foss' narration makes the story interesting, and it was exciting to hear the history of Chatsworth, it's lineage and also its similarity to Jane Austen's book, Pride and Prejudice, as Chatsworth (Pemberly), the Fitzwilliam dynasty, and the name "Georgiana" are part of both stories. The 2008 version of Pride and Prejudice will it's special features will be viewed with more interest now.
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- Lori Hanson
- 02-05-19
History drawn from first-hand accounts
I hesitated to purchase this book after reading some of the less favorable reviews. I'm glad I decided to make up my own mind.
One reviewer thought the book portrayed her as self-centered and self-absorbed. I thought she sounded like a fairly typical young, single woman. Maybe a little entitled because of the money and prestige she was born into, but I don't feel we should form a definitive opinion of someone long gone from this earth based on a book. Yes, the author interviewed those who knew her and that lends itself to some credibility, but hindsight is 20-20 and memories can be colored.
As for her marriage and affair, the truth is we can never know with any certainty what happens behind closed doors. Because so much is public about a celebrity's life, people tend to think they know the person. Probably not. I've been on a Kennedy reading quest and I've learned enough not to be too envious.
Kick was raised in a family where the parents don't appear to have been in the same house at the same time for any length of time, yet she had values regarding religion and premarital sex that she appeared to stick with until the death of her husband.
As for mispronunciations, I caught a few, but can't speak to all of the mistakes that someone from England would notice. That is disappointing (English locations) as I like to think I can learn pronunciations from listening to books that I can't get from reading print. I'll be careful to get those elsewhere so I don't make the same mistakes myself.
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- LoveFromBothSides
- 05-12-16
Real Housewives of Downton Abby
If you liked Downton Abby, you might like this.
The narrator drove me nutty, because she overacted.
The title should not read "Tragic Death"... however, because there was no tragedy here. For a tragedy one needs a hero.
The book: Catholic Kick (favorite daughter of bootlegger Joe Kennedy) meets Church of England young man, soon to be a Duke and falls in love. Mostly with his title and the life she'll lead.
She teases him with her virginity and finally they marry. (Her mother Rose Kennedy has a fit, disowns her.)
Both being virgins, he can't consummate the marriage easily.... she complains to friends.
His manhood under attack, he goes off to war, then stands up on a battlefield dressed in a bright white coat and gets shot through the head. German assisted suicide.
She goes after a richer much-married Lord, and he's such a narcissistic idiot, that when a pilot tells him they can't fly through a storm, he forces the pilot to take off anyway.
Everyone dies in a plane crash. Not a tragedy at all.
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- Madam Stealth
- 04-29-16
Interesting Bittersweet Story. Worth The Listen
If you could sum up Kick Kennedy in three words, what would they be?
Interesting. Bittersweet. Tragic
Who was your favorite character and why?
Billy Hartington
What about Eliza Foss’s performance did you like?
The dulcet ebb and flow of her voice kept the story moving and continuingly interesting.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. I listened to it while power walking over several days.
Any additional comments?
A great listen despite already knowing the tragic ending.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-18-16
Touching story & great history lesson
Would you listen to Kick Kennedy again? Why?
Yes. I learned so much about the hx of WWII and the politics. I also love to read about the Kennedy's, one of my families.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Kick Kennedy?
Her times with her brothers.
Have you listened to any of Eliza Foss’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I have not heard her before but will be looking for other books she reads.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I couldn't wait to go to work and come home from work to listen in the car.. both laughing and crying.
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- Kathleen Mueller
- 02-19-19
A bright light, extinguished long before her death!
Well written, thoroughly enjoyed listening! I must say, I’m left saddened and disillusioned by the cold, calculating relationship of Rose Kennedy especially and to some extent Joe Sr. with not only Kick, but what appears to be a general theme with in the family unit. Kick, it’s evident, was a bright star whose emotional light was continually extinguished by a narcissist mother who enjoyed the adoration and loyalty of Kick but cared little for her daughter to reach her own fullest potential if that deviated in any way from Roses well scripted illusion of the perfect Roman Catholic family. This well researched and richly detailed book,has left me thirsty for more about this storied family? Well done!
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- SAOT66
- 07-24-24
Fearless Kathleen Kennedy (Kick)
For a young woman to be so independent in the late 1930’s and early to mid 1940’s was truly unheard of. Yet Kick displayed a fearless independence that I admire. But for the fateful decision to fly to Paris heading into a storm, she could have fulfilled her dreams. It was extremely sad for Billy Cavendish to die at the end of the war struck in the head by a German sniper bullet. This led Kick to take up with a married man, Peter Fitzwilliam, playing with fire.
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- Jeremy Fergusson
- 06-15-16
Poorly Produced
What disappointed you about Kick Kennedy?
Mispronounced so many names and places. Reader obviously does not know anything about Britain then or now.
Has Kick Kennedy turned you off from other books in this genre?
No not at all.
Would you be willing to try another one of Eliza Foss’s performances?
Probably not.
Any additional comments?
Kik Kennedy was not a very appealing person. Rather shallow and not that interesting.
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