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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m reading it right now. One thing I find sad is how desperately the women wanted to be part of this. (At least Carolyn Bessette and Jackie did.) They both worked really hard to snag their husbands. Jackie had a proposal from a stockbroker… it makes me wonder what her life would have or could have been like if she made a different choice. And if Carolyn hadn’t gotten on that plane.[/quote]

I just finished the book. Thanks to OP for reminding me I bought it last year on a sale. The book is compulsively readable and fascinating.  But I left much more troubled about the wives than the author wanted. I was surprised to learn how they went into these marriages with a lot of knowledge. The author excused this quite a bit. I mean Carolyn’s mother and friends didn't approve of the marriage but we were supposed to take that as a sign of JFK jr’s rottenness rather than that something was amiss with Carolyn. (It’s both obviously).

Also it was strange to give Jackie a pass on sleeping with other women’s husbands given the entire context of the book.

There were countless examples of this discordant thought or minimizing the wives’ agency throughout the book. I posted after this PP because she lists other great examples. Why did Carolyn get on a plane when John was so poorly equipped to fly?

I also wondered what happened to Ethel? Why wasn’t she in the book? The cynical side of me wonders if she was left out because she’s not classically beautiful.[/quote]

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