
With unflinching honesty and a journalist's keen eye, Carole Radziwill explores the enduring ties of family, the complexities of marriage, the importance of friendship, and the challenges of self-invention. Three weeks later Anthony dies of cancer.

Kennedy Jr., Anthony's cousin, and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Carole's closest friend. A small plane plunges into the ocean carrying John F. What Remains begins with loss and returns to loss. Her marriage led her into the old world of European nobility and the newer world of American aristocracy. Her career at ABC News led her to the refugee camps of Cambodia, to a bunker in Tel Aviv, and to the scene of the Menendez murders. At nineteen, she struck out for New York City to find a different life.


Carole grew up in a small suburb with a large, eccentric cast of characters. What Remainsis a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill.
