Leaming notes that her father “descended on London with an unprecedented blast of self-generated publicity.” His daughter was introduced to British society by Lady Astor, a fellow American, and became rapidly well known as “the little American girl” who talked all the time and knew all the celebrities to whom her father had introduced her. In a solidly researched biography that casts Kick chiefly as a wealthy socialite, Ms. In pursuit of that goal, he placed his nine children to be socially led by his eldest daughter, Kathleen, who was always known as Kick and who lived up to all her father’s expectations - except when she rebelled against her devout Catholic upbringing so far as to marry the son of the Duke of Devonshire, a scion of one of the great English families. He made clear his disapproval of the British battle against Nazi Germany and even clearer that his sole aim in life was furthering his political and social ambitions. What made her different was that her irrepressible personality sprang from her father, Joseph Kennedy, the American ambassador to Britain who destroyed his public image by his harsh criticism of the nation as it plunged into global war and one of the most difficult periods in the history of the empire.
Charm reinforced by a spectacular self-confidence that was fed by an arrogant and wealthy father were the secret weapons used by Kathleen Kennedy to win over the hidebound British aristocracy during World War II.
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