White House by the Sea
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“Positively cinematic … laden with unexpected poignance.” - Toronto Star
"A well-paced history ... Storey has shaken a lot of archival trees and has embedded herself within the surviving Kennedy family ... A revealing record. " - The New York Times Book Review
“A fascinating narrative...with new details and well-sourced reporting. Storey's research gives the book a more intimate feel than many other histories of the Kennedy family.” - Associated Press
“[A] thoughtful and astute history. Storey has found a genuinely fresh historical angle. With an abundance of anecdotes...a bittersweet nostalgia moves through some of the chapters like a light mist off Nantucket Sound." - WBUR
“A treasure trove of interesting, amusing, and poignant stories and anecdotes of the dynamic, tightknit, and consequential clan … Appropriately enough, the book makes for great beach reading, as breezy as the summer air off Nantucket Sound.” — Kirkus Reviews
“White House by the Sea is a thorough, absorbing volume of love, fame and that most complicated of American families.” — ELLE magazine
“An immersive behind-the-scenes history … Full of vivid profiles and intriguing asides about the history of Cape Cod, this is a compassionate portrait of America’s most famous political dynasty.” — Publishers Weekly
"With no sensationalizing or hypothesizing, Storey's reporting is engaging and factual, capturing personal nuances and relaying intimate anecdotes that often stand in contrast to predominant, media-created perceptions ... Readers will come away with new insights and due appreciation for this uniquely American dynasty." - Starred Booklist review
“A resplendent stirring of nostalgia…Cape Cod has never had a book worthy of its romance with the Kennedys, nor have the Kennedys had one that does justice to their courtship with the peninsula they transformed into America's Playground—until now." — Larry Tye, New York Times bestselling author of Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
"Impeccably researched, Kate Storey's White House by the Sea is an irresistible invitation to spend time with America's First Family over decades of magical summertimes. Captivating!" — Elin Hilderbrand, bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket
“Kate Storey’s White House by the Sea is a rare peek behind the hedges and fences of Hyannis Port, weaving tales of triumph and despair to render a complex generational portrait of a family built on love and ambition but torn asunder by success and competition.” — Julie Satow, author of The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel
"White House by the Sea offers illuminating “if these walls could talk” stories, affirming how a house can stand like a witness tree, enduring silently as a family lives through its most public and private moments." — Kate Clifford Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
"Profoundly empathetic, rich in detail, this is a Kennedy book that must be read and once read will not be forgotten.” — Laurence Leamer, New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women, The Kennedy Men, and Sons of Camelot
“Revealing and poignant, well-written and insightful, White House by the Sea dazzles. Kate Storey has found a fresh way to tell the saga of the ever-fascinating Kennedy family.” — Meryl Gordon, New York Times bestselling author of Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend
"Storey is a brilliant storyteller and a relentless researcher who has uncovered sources that no one has seen before. That is one reason why this book is so fresh and compelling and also impossible to put down." — Steven M. Gillon, New York Times bestselling author of America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
"A terrific addition to the Kennedy library, packed with stories and characters we never quite knew. Well-researched, gracefully written, here is a tale of victories and defeats, weddings and funerals, hell-raising parties and quiet family dinners, bounteous lives and tragic deaths." — David Nasaw, New York Times bestselling author of The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy