First published 2005
Carole Radziwill recounts her journey from a working-class suburb to the heights of television journalism and marriage into European nobility. She details her career at ABC News, which took her to Cambodian refugee camps, Tel Aviv bunkers, and crime scenes across America. Her marriage to Prince Anthony Radziwill brought her into aristocratic circles and close friendship with Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. The memoir centers on devastating loss when a small plane crashes into the ocean, killing John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn. Three weeks later, Anthony succumbs to cancer. Radziwill examines how these deaths reshape her understanding of family bonds, marriage, friendship, and personal reinvention. With a journalist's precision, she navigates grief while exploring what endures after tragedy strikes.
Genres: autobiography, contemporary, biography-memoir, journalism
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: grief, personal-reinvention
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
272 pages · Kindle Edition · Scribner