NOW WITH A NEW PREFACE In this riveting account of the explosive relationship between Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover, renowned journalist and author Burton Hersh sets their highly publicized clashes in the context of Joe Kennedy’s ongoing manipulation of Congress and his children’s careers, and his lifelong connections to organized crime. Theirs was a unique triumvirate, marked by conflict and betrayal, and culminating in a near-Shakespearean tragedy. Based on compelling new research, and told in gripping anecdotal style, Hersh chronicles the complex relationship between the two antagonists, from their early brushes during the McCarthy years to their controversial deaths.

In this groundbreaking biography of Edward Kennedy, historian and journalist Burton Hersh combines a lifetime of research and reporting with a lively mixture of never–before–told anecdotes (including the definitive version of the incident at Chappaquiddick, the details of which Kennedy himself filled in for Hersh shortly after it occurred) to create a broad yet unfailingly intimate portrait of the politician who would be universally acknowledged as one of the twentieth century's greatest American legislators. Hersh was acquainted with Kennedy since his college days, and the result here is a unique series of revelations that serve to reinterpret the senator's public and private personas. Conditioned by deep–seated fears that he was an afterthought within his own powerful family, Kennedy developed a genius for conciliation and strategizing that made him a dramatically more effective political figure than either of his older brothers. In addition to this biography's account of the Chappaquiddick incident, Hersh also delivers the first full report of the vendetta between Kennedy and Richard Nixon, exposing the behind–the–scenes manipulations to which Kennedy resorted to drive Nixon from office during the Watergate scandal.

Traces the CIA's evolution from it's origins in the aftermath of World War I to the Iran Contra affair of today and major people involved.

Burton Hersh contrasts the public image of Ted Kennedy with the central role he has played in American politics since the 1960s and demonstrates that the last of the Kennedys is perhaps the true Kennedy--a more stalwart defender of traditional liberal values than either of his admired brothers.

A family biography.

Thomas Mellon (1813-1908), son of Andrew and Rebecca Mellon, emigrated from Northern Ireland, with his parents in 1818, and settled in western Pennsylvania. He attended Western University at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and made his home there. He married Sarah Jane Negley (1817-1909) in 1843. They had eight children, 1844-1860. Descendants listed lived in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The book recounts the story of the enormous Mellon properties--the Mellon Bank, Koppers, Alcoa, the Gulf Company.

Wet Work picks up where Hedge Fund left off on the exploits of the Landau family Michael, the narrator and lawyer son, is excited by his chance to plead a momentous case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Immediately afterwards he finds himself lured into a fishing expedition in Costa Rica by his astute Comanche brother-in-law, Sonny (Buffalo Hump) a lieutenant colonel and a seasoned scout with U.S.Army Intelligence. Once in San Jose, Sonny enlists Michael to strike up an acquaintanceship with Staniford Murtha, an unscrupulous CIA dropout our government suspects of fomenting a revolution against the progressive government in Costa Rica so that U.S. mining interests can grab off and exploit gold and diamond-mining properties. Suddenly, issues revolving around climate change and the environment weigh heavy for Michael, Sonny, and the natives of San Jose. Murtha and his backers are relentless in their ambitions; To get clearance to grab the Central American mines they are plotting to tip the U.S. Supreme Court by taking out a faltering old liberal, Grover -- "Lefty" -- Stynhenge by corrupting his hefty, self-serving latest wife so that the Court's conservative majority can clear the way. Michael and Sonny barely arrive in time to intervene and provoke the thrilling finale. So you think you've got climate change worries?

Early in Comanche Country Michael Landau's military-intelligence brother-in-law, the astute Lt. Colonel Sonny (Buffalo Hump), recruits Michael to take a look at the Comanche reservation in Lawton, Oklahoma. Years of drought have reduced the tribe; just then the elders are anguished because a major oil driller is about to frack beneath the Wichita Mountains, the burial ground of the tribe for centuries. Children are already starting to die from the attendant pollution while corrupt natives continue to sell drilling rights to the invading corporations. Perhaps Michael, his brother-in-law urges, can find some legal recourse that might permit the dwindling tribe to reverse the deepening poverty and widespread corporate exploitation. The Tea-Party administration in Oklahoma is apparently urging the drillers on. To deepen the local corruption, major casino operators are moving in, exploiting the Native-American franchise on gambling on the reservations. Visiting, Michael's son Ten Bears (Sylvan Landau II) happens to witness the assassination of a whistleblower. By then all the Landaus are tangled into the chaos of Lawton as an earthquake triggered by the incessant fracking tumbles tribal graves and ignites a revolution.