Writer and DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan’s bombshell new biography of the Kennedy household has raced to the highest of best-seller lists inside hours of being launched.
‘Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Ladies They Destroyed’ hit cabinets on Tuesday, July 2, and instantly took the No.1 spot on a number of of Amazon’s gross sales charts.
In addition to claiming the highest spot on the positioning’s ‘Ladies in Historical past’ part, it additionally got here first within the ‘Ladies’s biographies’ rating (whereas the audiobook and e-book editions got here in third and fourth place).
The e-book — which was serialized by the Mail final month — ranked within the prime 10 in a bunch of different charts, together with coming third within the prestigious ‘Historical past’ class.
Most outstanding, days earlier than it was even revealed and as a result of numerous pre-sale orders, ‘Ask Not’ turned Amazon’s fifth best-selling new launch final week.
Callahan has already acquired a flurry of rave critiques, together with from podcaster Megyn Kelly.
Callahan has already acquired a flurry of rave critiques, together with from podcaster Megyn Kelly, who described the e-book as ‘the must-read e-book of the summer time.’
‘There’s so many fascinating new nuggets on this weird household. Belief me, you are going to need to learn it and purchase it for everybody you recognize,’ Kelly stated.
A equally glowing assessment in The Guardian praised the e-book as an ‘eye-opening exposé’, whereas City & Nation journal described it as ‘a searing, no holds barred account of scandal’.
Final month, the Mail revealed 4 unique extracts of the e-book.
These included surprising new revelations corresponding to: untold particulars of JFK’s 1963 assassination; his spouse Jackie’s second marriage to Aristotle Onassis and the 170-clause prenup they negotiated; unearthed claims that might implicate ‘lady-killer’ Kennedys within the demise of Marilyn Monroe; and a surprising new concept concerning the 1999 aircraft crash that killed JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.
