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Chappaquiddick
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
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Summary
A young woman leaves a party with a wealthy US senator. The next morning her body is discovered in his car at the bottom of a pond.
This is the damning true story of the death of campaign strategist Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick and of the senator - a 37-year-old Senator Ted Kennedy - who left her trapped underwater while he returned to his hotel, slept, and made phone calls to associates. It is the story of a powerful, privileged American man who was able to treat a woman's life as disposable without facing real consequences. And it is the story of a shameful political cover-up involving one of the nation's most well-connected families and its network of lawyers, public relations people, and friends who ensured Ted Kennedy remained a respected member of the Senate for 40 more years.
Leo Damore's 1988 national best seller, originally entitled Senatorial Privilege, almost didn't make it into print after its original publisher, Random House, judged it too explosive and backed out of its contract with Damore. Mysteriously, none of the other big New York publishers picked it up. Only when small independent publisher Regnery obtained the manuscript was the book's publication made possible and the true story of the so-called "Chappaquiddick incident" finally told. This new edition, Chappaquiddick, is being released 30 years after the original Senatorial Privilege to coincide with the nationwide theatrical release of the movie Chappaquiddick starring Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms, Bruce Dern, and Jim Gaffigan.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-03-24
Thorough and courageous account.
This is a fascinating tale from beginning to end; good narration, interesting foreword, useful chronology and ‘cast of characters’.
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- Marie Porter
- 10-02-24
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full of research and interesting sights into every aspect of the accident and the cover up
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- Caroline
- 20-12-23
Incredible story of corruption
I had heard of Chappaquiddick but didn't know much about it or about Edward Kennedy. This is a really well researched book that exposes the efforts taken to protect Kennedy at the expense of justice for a young woman, Mary Jo Kopechne, who died tragically. Police incompetence seems to have played a part too. Even though these events were decades ago, it's important to be honest about failures and corruption especially as regards celebrities who are not necessarily treated as everyone else would be.
my slight criticisms of the book are that there is very little about Mary Jo or the other women at the party which sidelines them (as they were sidelined in fact) and quotes from Mary Jo's grieving mother were narrated in a simpering tone which was a bit insulting to her.
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- Paul O'Brien
- 04-09-21
Kennedy and Kennedydom exposed
The worst lowlife in this entire saga are tye police chief and the DA who were more concerned with covering Kennedy than with discovering why a young woman was dead. Then you have the sycophants and long-time Kennedy bootlickers, grovellers and hangers on. This excellent book exposes them all for what they were, namely, conspirators in a clearly indictable crime.
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- Linda T
- 22-03-24
Ted Kennedy
Unbelievable what you can get away with just with a second name. if his name was plain old joe smith he would have been jailed
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- T J.
- 02-03-24
Yawnfest
Well read, great voice, clear diction. Far too much irrelevant and utterly unnecessary details. The reciting of the entire cast of characters at the beginning is ridiculous. At one third of the length it would have been interesting. Nothing new here.
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- Marion
- 21-09-18
Slow!
Interesting but it was so slow and I was tempted to throw in the towel many times. Would I recommend this book, no I wouldn't.
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