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It's a family affair: This Thanksgiving, dig into some of the world's most famous families, from the Kennedys to the Windsors to the Trumps.
Ivanka's Apprentice
While one sister coolly leveraged her father's favor into a business of her own, as well as an influential behind-the-scenes role in his 2016 campaign and on the transition team, the other, 12 years younger, was still finding her place in the family. Profiling Ivanka and Tiffany Trump in 2017, Sarah Ellison explored the perks and perils of being Donald Trump's daughter.
A Gucci Knockoff
Maurizio Gucci, whose family name is still a synonym for style and chic, forfeited his pride, his reputation, and his global empire of bags and shoes before he lost his life to a mysterious, elegantly dressed assassin. From Maurizio's Bulgari-draped ex-wife, and from other family members, Judy Bachrach learned of the intense loathing and vicious rivalries that brought down the Gucci dynasty.
The Trouble With Andrew
In the afterglow of Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding, Buckingham Palace still had a major PR problem: how to handle Prince Andrew, then Britain's trade ambassador and fourth in line to the throne. The prince's dissolute lifestyle, links to unsavory foreign potentates, and friendship with Jeffrey Epstein were undercutting the queen's efforts to rehabilitate the monarchy. And while many blamed Andrew's problems on his perennially broke ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, Edward Klein discovered some insiders pointing to another woman—his mother herself.
Two Sons, One Destiny
While Joseph P. Kennedy relentlessly groomed Joe junior, his sterling firstborn, for the White House, his frail and "sloppy" second son, Jack, learned to draw on the best of his father's love and—with some brief help from a psychologist—shield himself from the control that went with it. That struggle may have been the making of the future president. Mining hundreds of Kennedy-family letters, Cari Beauchamp revealed the complicated dynamic between the young JFK, his formidable brother, and their tycoon father as it played itself out in the arenas of women, politics, and World War II.
43+41=84
Routinely underestimated, he struggled to live up to his father. He pandered to the right and had a Machiavellian political strategist. Is he George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush? Talking to their inner circles, Todd Purdum cut through the conventional wisdom to show that the similarities between 43 and 41 were deeper than the differences—and hold a key to understanding their presidencies.
All in the Family
James Reginato checked in on the fourth generation of Gettys—a lively batch of great-grandchildren from America's most infamous oil dynasty—in this sneak preview of Growing Up Getty.
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