Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

by Maureen Callahan

They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money

This is the third book I’ve read with this excerpt as an epigraph

Carolyn liked bossing him around. She got off on denigrating him, calling him a “fag” in front of her fashion friends, taunting him with the male model she kept on the back burner, her explosive temper keeping him unsure and on edge.

Yikes!

At the gym—any gym—he’d strip off his towel after showering and slowly, pointedly examine his genitals.

What a WEIRDO

Carolyn had made a move. Her friend hadn’t been surprised so much as hurt,

Why are you friends with her??

Black Jack, like Joe Kennedy, had a habit of cheating with his wife’s friends, holding their hands or groping them right in front of Janet Lee Bouvier,

I mean I knew all this but whew