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

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The patriarch

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David Nasaw

the remarkable life and turbulent times of Joseph P. Kennedy

Joseph Patrick Kennedy, whose life spanned the First World War, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the Cold War, was the father of President John F. Kennedy and senators Robert and Edward Kennedy. He was an indomitable and elusive figure whose dreams of advancement for his nine children were matched only by his extraordinary personal ambition and shrewd financial skills. Trained as a banker, Kennedy was also a Hollywood mogul, a stock exchange savant, a shipyard manager, the founding chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and ambassador to London during the Battle of Britain. His incredible life encompasses the very heart of the American century

Dunganstown to East Boston -- School days -- Starting out -- War -- Making a million -- "My own master in my own business" -- Hollywood -- Gloria and Rose -- Last exit from Hollywood -- On the Roosevelt train -- Waiting for the call -- To Washington -- Reelecting Roosevelt -- Maritime commissioner -- 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 -- Home again -- The man who out-Hamleted Hamlet -- 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!"