Love Story: JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette Is Trying Too Hard to Be The Crown for America

If the Kennedys are the closest thing America has to a royal family, then Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was our Princess Diana. Like her British counterpart, she was an outsider—albeit a beautiful, stylish, blonde, privileged one—to the palace intrigue that consumed the family she married into. She was stalked by paparazzi, restricted in her professional pursuits and social life, alternately worshiped and vilified in the media. And then she died, in her mid-30s, in a horrible accident, alongside a...