Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 176
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Trim: 5½ x 7½
978-1-4930-3161-0 • Hardback • May 2018 • $19.95 • (£14.95)
978-1-4930-3162-7 • eBook • May 2018 • $18.99 • (£14.95)
Dr. Margaret Reed, a nationally acclaimed animal training professional, met President Kennedy and his dogs when she was a little girl on vacation in Hyannis Port. She also sits on the board of Cornell University’s James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health and is a member of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum President’s Council.
Joan Lownds is the author of Man Overboard: Inside the Honeymoon Cruise Murder. She has been an award-winning writer and reporter for several Connecticut newspapers and magazines, including The Waterbury Republican-American, The New Haven Advocate, and Fairfield Magazine.
You don't need to be a dog lover or a history aficionado to enjoy The Dogs of Camelot: Stories of the Kennedy Canines. But be warned. Reading this charming, well-researched, and fascinating book by Dr. Margaret Reed and Joan Lownds might transform you into both. The accessible text combines the public and domestic lives of the late President John F. Kennedy and his family. Page by page, the reader become acutely aware that canines provided the President and his family a bit of joy and normalcy amid the many hardships, sorrows, and unexpected crises that characterize any presidency. Well worth the read, this sure-to-be popular tome offers a portrait of the Kennedy family we have not yet viewed in full. Five stars!
— Mary Sharnick, author of Orla’s Canvas