{"product_id":"twilight-of-camelot-the-short-life-and-long-legacy-of-patrick-bouvier-kennedy-9781668033166","title":"Twilight of Camelot: The Short Life and Long Legacy of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the \"insightful and well-crafted\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003ci\u003eKennedy and King \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a heart-wrenching and sensitive examination of the tragic loss of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's premature son, Patrick, and how their shared grief brought them closer together in the months leading up to his assassination. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn April 1963, President Kennedy and the First Lady announced the pregnancy of their third child--joyful news after years of miscarriages and the stillborn birth of a daughter in 1956. But on August 7th, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was born six weeks premature and died less than two days later. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this probing, soulful account of the struggle to save Patrick, Steven Levingston takes us inside the long-troubled relationship of Jack and Jackie as they faced one of the most difficult experiences of their marriage. With a \"perceptive and eloquent\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e) voice, Levingston reveals how Patrick's death, tragic as it was, ultimately brought the couple closer together and set the President on a trajectory to be a better husband and father in the months leading up to their fateful campaign trip to Dallas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For his definitive account of Patrick's brief but influential life, Levingston draws on first-ever interviews with doctors who treated Jackie and Patrick, in-depth revelations of the Secret Service agent in whose speeding car Jackie nearly gave birth prematurely, and on new archival documents. \u003ci\u003eTwilight of Camelot\u003c\/i\u003e is a fresh and humanizing portrait of one of the most famous and complicated couples of the 20th century, and a pulsating drama that illuminates one of the least-known periods in Kennedy family history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gallery Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668033166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2025 pg. 80\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Steven Levingston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52136435843253,"sku":"9781668033166","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4fa0e8c4-151f-4888-beed-359699a6b1a0.jpg?v=1767114548","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/twilight-of-camelot-the-short-life-and-long-legacy-of-patrick-bouvier-kennedy-9781668033166","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}