Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story

At last the ho is exposed

I've never been a fan of the Kennedys. Nazi Sympathizers, womanizers, alcoholics, money hungry, possible murderers, (whether directly or by contract), phony religious fanatics. But most of all I despised Jackie. What an amoral phony! She sold her body, cheated with married men, raised two extremely stupid children. UGHHHHH! Good book. At last the lies are being exposed,

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This book is proving to be a pack of lies

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-24/david-heymanns-kennedy-fantasies/full/

It took writer Andrew Goldman only a little fact checking to find multiple, serious errors of fact in Heymann's book. This is not the first time Heymann has been revealed to be a liar in print (see below). You'd think Simon & Schuster would have fact checked this book, particularly with this author's history of playing fast an loose with the truth. For the full, detailed, sourced article, to to the link. It's too long to post here. But here's the gist:

The new book Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story, which claims the two Kennedys had an affair, relies on a dead witness, improbable happenstance, and a view into the Kennedy compound that was physically impossible.

One of Heymann's previous books was recalled by the publisher due to lies: ... a 1982 incident in which Random House was forced to pulp 58,000 copies of Heymann's book about Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton because of a factual error. It probably also didn't help his case that a handwriting expert pronounced as fakes the journals Heymann said Barbara Hutton had given to him.

Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau ended up investigating Heymann.

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Kennedys

This book was a great read but it was not all true. This is a fictional book. The things in this book are not all true, its what the author assumed happend.

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Bobby and Jackie

For anyone interested in the Kennedys or Jackie O, this is a great read! I'm not much for writing on books of this nature, but it was a good book. I wish that the "affair" had not happened because I believe you hurt good people with love afairs. I'm sure Ethel knew about the sexual exploits of Bobby and Jack, but it should not have been shoved in her face by being in the "family". Grief is not an excuse for what happened. I believe from reading the book that they really knew each other and might have been good for each other had they not already been married. I also believe it is the reason Jackie married Onassis which was a shame for all involved. Onassis had no love for Jackie either so the whole marriage was a sham. It is truly amazing what we do as adults. I believe the Kennedys could have done so much more if they had been able to put aside their private lives once in a while and this book proves it.

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Too much information....not concise

I bought the book because I was an integral part of the Kennedy era. I worked for RFK's campaign in college. I found the book to be "all over the place" and not a concise, accounting of how the "love story" progressed. There were some interesting parts but it appeared to be more of an expose of who was sleeping with whom.

I was dissapointed.

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Trashy

I thought this was going to be a love story between Bobby and Jackie. Instead it was just a book detailing all the sordid affairs that all the Kennedy's had. I couldn't even finish reading it.

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makes you want to read more about the kennedys

Even if this is all fiction I still could not put the book down! It made me want to learn more about the Kennedys and that time period. Loved it!

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A well written book quick, fun and entertaining

WOW this book really has created alot of buzz ! It is a quick history lesson during an exciting time. The 60's! Heymann really captures the era in a quickpaced read full of interesting tidbits. Whats up with all you "haters" out there. Review the book and stop attacking the writer.You only sound like a bunch of whiners and wannabees. Get the book , read it and see for yourself. Heymann is a gifted writer. I loved this book !

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Different view of a Kennedy....

After reading this book, one could easily understand how Bobby and Jackie could enter into a relationship forged by their grief. This book pulls back a few layers and exposes us to a rather touching, albeit sometimes difficult, relationship.

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GOOD READING IF YOU LIVED DURING THIS TIME!!!!!

Some stories I had read in other books..........but still had a lot of new info....!!! This also lead me to other books to check out.

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Excellent-a MUST read

Loved the book, just when I thought I knew everything about JFK/Jackie and Bobby, boy was I wrong. Very informative, I just could not stop reading.

Wow

I was a kid when President Kennedy was killed.

After his death, Jackie and the children moved into a home I believe in Georgetown, before her move to New York.

There was footage of the first time Bobby Kennedy went to visit Jackie in her new home.
When he left the look on her face at him as she closed the door made my father exclaim at the time "They're having an affair".
I guess he was right, if this book is accurate.

Always thought that Bobby & Jackie had things...looks like they did

As a child I always wondered why Mrs. John Kennedy looked so lovingly at her brother-in-law...now I know.

Jackie and Bobby are the classic lovers...right love...wrong time...

Great beach read....

Amazing and Intriguing. Hungry for more on Jackie's life!

Jackie was the perfect mother role model as I was growing up in the 60's, and this book confirms this impression. She protected her children from the media before and after President Jack Kennedy's death. However, I was floored to find out about all the men in Jackie's life! When President Kennedy's rumors about his infidelities surfaced, I always thought Jackie was not like John F. Kennedy. I always wanted to believe different from her. I was very sad to find out Jackie and Robert's love could never be.

Interesting

If this is true, portrays Jackie as not so nice person or Bobby.

Bobby and Jackie: Does this finally finish the story?

I read this book with some trust because I've read others by the same author, who seems to have made the Kennedys and especially Jackie his area of specialization. It's what we like, invasion of the privacy of famous people, told well--that is, without hype or attitude.

Most of it I had heard before, but one thing was new: an item that I had never heard before and that fit into a theory I have about Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne, the girl who drowned in his car at Chappaquiddick. The author says that Mary Jo had been a lover of Bobby when she was a "boiler room girl" during his presidential campaign.

We know that the Kennedy brothers sometimes shared their women: Marilyn Monroe, for example. What if Ted had turned his car off the road to the ferry to take his turn with Mary Jo--and she had resisted so that he got mad, left her with the car, and walked to the ferry for Edgartown? The rest of this scenario would have her, emotional, maybe in tears, unfamiliar with the road--driving off the bridge to drown all by herself.

The idea fits reports of Kennedy's dry clothes and unruffled manner when he greeted the desk clerk in the early hours after midnight in Edgartown, as well as his failure to alert anyone to help Mary Jo. In this scenario, he would not have known what happened to her.

If something like this is what really happened, it raises a question about the American public: why would this rising poltical star choose to present himself as an unbelievably callous coward rather than admit that he had left a girl who turned down his advances? Why would his political advisors agree on this story? Which bad behavior did they believe the American people would be more likely to forgive?

All the figures in this book are principally human. Bobby is shown as politically driven, unhappily married, and suffering from both the loss of a deeply loved brother and the burden of his father's ambition.

As for the book's depiction of Jackie, she is so multi-faceted that she remains a mystery, and therefore still fascinating. The author says she loved money more than
anything else, but he never cracks her pristine public image--a devoted mother, a cultured intellectual, and a superb actress who gave herself to playing out her role for the nation.

Total Crap

I felt dirty after reading this tripe trash. It must be all the excerpts which he didn't put in his earlier Kennedy book. Probably true, but let the dead rest in piece. Is there anything of historical consequence here? Wait for Teddy's memoirs instead.

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Avid Reader of anything Kennedy

I found this book to be enlighting.But it seem to repeat everything most all other kenndy books talk about when it came to Bobby and Jackie and the affair they had.I came to the conculsion along time ago that if Bobby was anything like his brother Jack and Ted and his father Joe,,,then having an affair with sister in law is not tooo far fetch.

An affair to remember?

I have been on a 1960's reading jag lately, a kind of nostalgic look back at my parent's decade of youth. Helps me understand where they come from and it was an interesting time of change. I was excited to get an advance copy of this book as it looked to be a trashy but fun read, and I can say it delivered on both counts (trashy fun that is)! Did Jackie and Bobby Kennedy have a love affair after the assassination of JFK? This author makes the case that they did and it is fascinating reading. But how much real truth is there here? And even if it is all true is it something the public really needs to know? The book held a certain creepy fascination over me, I couldn't stop reading, yet a part of me thought I should. Its that kind of read. It is well written, and appears well documented but I would be interested to hear if there are any dissenting voices out there?

Speaking of 1960's and creepy fascination, Check out "Misfits Country" for a look into the mind of Marilyn Monroe and the making of her final film.

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