Ask Not

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a "harrowing, incendiary" exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family’s generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem. The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and—above all else—integrity. However, this carefully constructed veneer hides a dark truth: a pattern of Kennedy men physically and psychologically abusing women and girls, leaving a trail of ruin and death through generations. Through decades of scandal, from sexual assaults to suicides, the family’s hidden history of violence and exploitation is revealed. Callahan redirects the spotlight to the women in the Kennedys’ orbit, paying homage to those who freed themselves and giving voice to those who could not.