The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga.

KEARNS GOODWIN, Doris.

Item Number: 3547

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.

First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

Opening with the 1863 baptism of John F. Fitzgerald, and closing with his grandson's presidential inaugural a century later, this is the richest history yet of two much-chronicled families. Kearns Goodwin was allowed unprecedented access to papers and persons and has allowed her to present fresh material, including an especially full treatment of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. "The definitive work" (John Kenneth Galbriath). Made into a successful television miniseries.