Seeds of Destruction

by Ralph G. Martin

The best-selling author of Charles and Diana offers a provocative study of the Kennedy men, describing how the fiercely ambitious, dictatorial patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., shaped the destinies of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399140611
• ISBN13: 9780399140617
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great book !!

I don't know what was the author's rationale for writing this book. To me this book shows the futile efforts and attempts of a power-hungry man to influence his family and his sons. Finally Providence took over and gave him nothing but grief and perhaps regret. I am glad there was never a 'Kennedy' political dynasty. It would have been disastrous for the U.S. and for the world !!

SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION A DIFFERENT KENNEDY VIEW

Instead of all the usuall junk and rehash that is in most, if not all books Ralph Martin takes a different view. He studys how the father and his ways affected the sons and how this made for a strangely dynamic family group. He ( Martin) probes into the mindset of each generation and how each tragedy or world event changed each member. Fascinating to see each of the sons grow and how they were raised differently and influenced by different members of the family.