PG to write about Eleanor of Aquitaine?

[Miss Moppet]

[quote=""Perdita""]There was a book I read last summer which was meant to be based on Laura Bush's childhood and went through her life until she became first lady. It started off in the 1950's so it's sort of HF.. can't remember the title but it was a good insight into recent American history.[/quote]

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld. I read it last year too and really enjoyed it.

[Margaret]

Yeah but overall I dislike the Kennedys. Sure they got scandal, money and a few deaths but I'm just tired of hearing about them.

This is why I gravitate more to historical novels set in centuries before the 20th. I feel more or less the same way about the WWII period, which is full of strong personalities, intense drama and moral quandaries, stuff I generally love in historical novels - but the setting is just not enticing to me, because it feels so familiar.

People born after the 1960s might actually be quite interested in a novel about the Kennedys because they wouldn't have the same level of overexposure to the story as those of us born earlier. I was born after WWII ended, but the culture is still saturated with that story, much more so, I think, than with the Kennedy story.

[Misfit]

[quote=""Margaret""]This is why I gravitate more to historical novels set in centuries before the 20th. I feel more or less the same way about the WWII period, which is full of strong personalities, intense drama and moral quandaries, stuff I generally love in historical novels - but the setting is just not enticing to me, because it feels so familiar.

People born after the 1960s might actually be quite interested in a novel about the Kennedys because they wouldn't have the same level of overexposure to the story as those of us born earlier. I was born after WWII ended, but the culture is still saturated with that story, much more so, I think, than with the Kennedy story.[/quote]

The Kennedy's are such a strong memory even from my earliest days. Little John John saluting at the funeral, RFK they were always There.

[Ash]

Yes. I was in second grade when he was killed. Remember our teacher standing up crying, and the national anthem playing on the loud speaker. Really upset that Saturday when cartoons were canceled due to the funeral, but later grew to understand the manitude of it. I was watching the California primary when RFK got shot.

Now that I think about it, Im rather surprised there aren't novels about the Kennedys, or at least HF novels with them as background. Or am I missing a whole section of HF? (I suspect many of those types of books are really spy or cold war reads).

[Divia]

[quote=""Margaret""]People born after the 1960s might actually be quite interested in a novel about the Kennedys because they wouldn't have the same level of overexposure to the story as those of us born earlier. I was born after WWII ended, but the culture is still saturated with that story, much more so, I think, than with the Kennedy story.[/quote]

I know the baby boomers love the Kennedys. They are always eager for more, or so it seems. Me, I grew tired of their story. My mother would get all teary eyed and I would heave sighs whenever she told me "heart wrenching" stories about Jackie.

But to each their own.

[LoveHistory]

The Kennedy's are too fresh for HF. You'd be looking at potential lawsuits from the surviving members of the family.

They were kind of like our version of royalty though.

[Perdita]

[quote=""Miss Moppet""]American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld. I read it last year too and really enjoyed it.[/quote]

Thanks Miss Moppet, that's the one. It was really enjoyable

[Divia]

I'd be interested in a story about Consuelo Vanderbilt, who was married off to an icky duke just cause her mom wanted royalty in the family.