The Kennedys by Thomas Maier audiobook

The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings

By Thomas Maier
Read by Alan Sklar

Blackstone Publishing

Unabridged

Format : MP3 CD (In Stock)
  • 1 Format: MP3 CD

  • ISBN: 9780792730811

Runtime: 29.28 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A Book Sense Pick for One of the Top 10 All-Time Books on JFK

A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection

A History Book Club Pick

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

Meticulously researched, The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings examines the Kennedys as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Thomas Maier delves into the deeper currents of the often spectacular Kennedy story, and the ways in which their immigrant background shaped their values—and, in turn, twentieth-century America—for over five generations. Bringing together new research, exclusive interviews, as well as his own experience as an Irish American, Maier brilliantly illustrates the defining role of the immigrant experience for the country's foremost political dynasty.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“A fascinating new perspective…A valuable book because of it focus on influences other biographies have overlooked.” —Houston Chronicle
“There is a facinating, five-generation story to tell here, and Maier does it well...this book read like a metaphor for the Irish immigrant experience itself.” —Providence Journal
“An enlightening and original portrait of an almost mythic family and the Irish-Catholic experience and a portrait of the United States at its best and worst.” —Star-Ledger (Newark)
“This is all very fertile ground seeded, to a great extent, with items quite rare in recent Kennedy scholarship: new information mingled with genuine insight. It’s an admirable job overall.” —Publishers Weekly
“This extremely readable biography not only examines one particular immigrant family but also sheds light on the larger story of Irish Americans from the early twentieth century onward.” —Booklist
“Beginning with the seventeenth-century Irish struggle to defend Catholicism, the author weaves an artful blend of culture and history to introduce the eponymous Boston family—portraying the clan’s men with their tragic hubris and uncontrollable hormones. Alan Sklar, whose voice is a deep-voiced delight, manipulates volume and speed to punctuate the long sentences with commas we cannot see. His familiarity with the material allows him to emphasize and minimize with precision, a covetable skill for history narrators. Passing the story through the muse in Sklar’s mind doubles the enjoyment of the print version. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile

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Author

Author Bio: Thomas Maier

Author Bio: Thomas Maier

Thomas Maier is an award-winning author, journalist, and television producer. He was a producer for the Emmy-winning Paramount+ docuseries Mafia Spies, adapted from his nonfiction book. His biography, Dr. Spock: An American Life, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The JFK Library hosted a forum about his 2014 book, When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys. At Newsday in New York, he twice won the National Society of Professional Journalists’ top prize and several honors, including the Daniel Pearl Award from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. He won the 2022 Columbia University Journalism School’s Alumni Award for career achievement. He has appeared twice on The Today Show and Morning Joe, as well as 20/20, CBS Evening News, Hardball, CNN, and NPR’s Fresh Air.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Runtime: 29.28
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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