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

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [829]-834) and index

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The Patriarch

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David Nasaw

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 and friends, Nasaw tells the story of a man who participated in the major events of his times: the booms and busts, the Depression and the New Deal, two world wars and the Cold War, and the birth of the New Frontier. In studying Kennedy's life, we relive the history of the American century

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!"

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