The Patriarch the remarkable life and turbulent times of Joseph P. Kennedy

In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and interviews with Kennedy family members an...

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Main Author: Nasaw, David.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2013, c2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • East Boston to Cambridge to Brookline: Dunganstown to East Boston
  • School days
  • Starting out
  • War
  • Making a million
  • Hollywood: "My own master in my own business"
  • Hollywood
  • Gloria and Rose
  • Last exit from Hollywood
  • Washington: On the Roosevelt train
  • Waiting for the call
  • To Washington
  • Reelecting Roosevelt
  • Maritime commissioner
  • London: A plainspoken ambassador
  • A rather dreadful homecoming
  • Munich
  • The Kennedy plan
  • Sidelined and censored
  • "This country is at war with Germany"
  • The lives of Americans are at stake
  • Defeatist
  • The fall of France
  • The worst of times
  • There's hell to pay tonight
  • Washington, but briefly: Home again
  • The man who out-Hamleted Hamlet
  • Palm Beach and Hyannis Port: A forced retirement
  • War
  • "A melancholy business"
  • The candidate's father
  • Family matters
  • "The great debate"
  • The next senator from Massachusetts
  • Retirement
  • Making money and giving it away
  • The Catholic candidate
  • Electing a president
  • "He belongs to the country"
  • "No!"