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Title: Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up by Leo Damore ISBN: 0-89526-564-8 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 1988 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thorough study of Kennedy Chappaquiddick incident
Comment: Leo Damore presents an interesting, thorough study of the
weeks, months, and years following the famed Chappaquiddick incident in 1969.
Damore's position is that Kennedy was responsible for the
death of young Mary Jo Kopechne and because of his stature
as Massachusetts Senator was able to avoid justice. Damore
presents an analysis of the mass of evidence and presents
several possible conclusions, including the controversial idea that Kennedy
was not driving the vehicle in question at the time, despite
his confession to the contrary, and that he instead had been
dropped off minutes earlier after being spotted in the parked car
with Ms. Kopechne by local police.
Senatorial Privilege is the most definitive book on the
subject.
Rating: 5
Summary: A haunting and enduring tragedy
Comment: I bought this book in July of 2000, after watching an extraordinary 2-hour installment about the story on A&E's "Investigative Reports" (also available on videotape). The author here, Leo Damore, was also part of the television program. Just as the video holds up to repeated viewing, so have I found I've returned more than once to the book. Called 'the most famous traffic fatality in American politics,' it certainly remains that.
'Profile in Courage' this is not. I was 15 the summer of this accident and then had only a teenager's curiosity about it. One more 'Kennedy tragedy,' but this one proves to be one that could have and should have been avoided. I distinctly remember the carried-on-all-networks 'statement' the senator gave days late, stage-managed to nth. And not very believable. What I hadn't remembered was that even without Chappaquiddick, it was hardly a slow news week; it was the same weekend we'd first landed on the moon. According to the book, the latest mishap of the Kennedy family's pushed the moon story to the bottom of page one of "The Boston Globe." I remember the cute neck brace too, which apparently didn't go on for one or two days after the accident, and after many sources in the book had noticed no incapacity in the senator. It would be a pleasure to say 'No one today could get away with the circumvention and manipulation of law enforcement and investigation that was at work here. But don't expect to hear it from someone who sat through nine 1995 months of the Simpson criminal proceedings. If Robert Blake walks too, good luck un-convincing me that the rich and famous get away with it every time.
Damore relies heavily on the recollections of Joseph A. Gargan, a Kennedy insider, and one of the first people the senator confessed the accident to. After nearly two decades Gargan was ready to talk. I find him credible, but it's a messy story and no one comes up smelling like a hero. If nothing else, "Senatorial Privilege" is a study of how much of yourself you can trade away to get close to power and celebrity. Gargan is no enviable figure looking back from late middle-age, and having played sycophantic clean-up man for so much of it.
But I couldn't put this book down, which I bought used, and I recommend it. (From the cellophane over the dust jacket, it was clearly once a library hardcover edition, but it was in fully satisfactory condition.) It's one of the best non-fiction works I've read in recent years. Mary Jo Kopechne would be 63 this year.
Rating: 4
Summary: IMPORTANT OVERVIEW AND REMINDER
Comment: Teddy Kennedy went to a party attended by Mary Jo Kopechne. He got sloshed as usual. He drove off a bridge in bad weather thereby inadvertently causing the death of Ms. Kopechne. Sounds like a good case for involuntary manslaughter - that is, unless you are a Kennedy. This book, while providing nothing new, offers a great overview of the Chappaquiddick tragedy. Those desiring truthful books about the Kennedy scourge should definitely add this one to your burgeoning collection. Intelligent, logical readers will be incredulous that Kennedy escaped prosecution. He delayed reporting the accident for hours - went to his hotel, cleaned up a bit, chatted with confidants about how to handle the matter and THEN called the authorities. It is astounding that, even as Mary Jo Kopechne sat drowning in his car, Kennedy would be bent on protecting his political hide. What is even more disturbing is the number of reviews trying to pan this book as "Kennedy bashing". A few reviews, out of misguided devotion to this errant family, simply absolve Teddy of all guilt. After all, it was JUST a drunk driving accident - one that deprived a family of their daughter forever. But since Teddy was involved, it never happened...right?
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Title: Death at Chappaquiddick by Thomas L. Tedrow ISBN: 0882892495 Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1979 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government by P. J. O'Rourke, Andrew Ferguson ISBN: 0802139701 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Bridge at Chappaquiddick by Jack Olsen ISBN: 044107958X Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1980 List Price(USD): $1.95 |
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Title: The Kennedy Men: Three Generations of Sex, Scandal and Secrets by Nellie Bly ISBN: 1575660156 Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Case Against Hillary Clinton by Peggy Noonan ISBN: 0060393408 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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