Kick : the true story of JFK's sister and the heir to Chatsworth /
Among Rose and Joe Kennedy's children the fourth child, Kathleen, stood out. Known as Kick, she was a firecracker who effortlessly made friends and stole hearts. When her father was appointed as the ambassador to Great Britain in 1938, Kick shocked and alienated her devout family by falling in...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : kicking the surf
- Rose and Joe
- A beautiful and enchanting child
- Forbidden fruit
- Hyannis Port
- Bronxville
- Convent girl
- Muckers and trouble
- - Mademoiselle Pourquoi
- Gstaad and Italy
- Travels with my mother : Russia and England
- Politics and Europe revisited
- The ambassador
- At the Court of St James's
- 'I Get a Kick Out of You'
- The debutante
- Lords a-leaping
- 'A merry girl'
- Billy
- The Riviera
- Peace for our time
- Chatsworth
- St Moritz and Rome
- The gathering storm
- The last hurrah
- 'This country is at war with Germany'
- The personality kids
- Operation Ariel
- The fourth hostage
- Billy and Sally
- Kick the reporter
- Lobotomy
- Scandal
- 'Did you happen to see...'
- Red Cross worker of World War II
- Coffee and doughnuts
- Sister Kick
- Girl on a bicycle
- Parties and prayers
- Rosemary tonks
- Agnes and Hartie
- Telegrams and anger
- 'I love you more than anything in the world'
- The Marchioness of Hartington
- Operation Aphrodite
- Billy the hero
- 'Life is so cruel"
- The widow Hartington
- Politics or passion?
- Joy she gave joy she has found