Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

History has shown the Kennedy family as America’s version of the royal family. Their rise to prominence featured exorbitant wealth and reaching the highest office in the land. The Kennedy family tree has featured both triumphs and tragedies, celebrity and scandal. The impact of the Kennedys was forever etched in the “Camelot” myth, which arose after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.

The men and women of the family have been under a microscope from the mainstream media ever since. The untimely deaths and calamities that have affected the family have been emphasized while the salacious and possibly nefarious were often overlooked, if not buried. In Ask Not, the noted and occasionally redacted women in the Kennedy world are profiled in depth.

Author Maureen Callahan (American Predator, 2019) doesn’t mince words with regard to the Kennedy family. Callahan has assembled a compilation of condemnation spanning generations while probing the actions of the Kennedy men and the women who were part of their lives. The book holds out the promise of a strong investigative effort but is often hampered by the author’s inherent dislike for a large portion of the family.