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New York Times Ten Best Books of 2012
RivetingThe Patriarch is a book hard to put down. Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review
In this magisterial new work The Patriarch, the celebrated historian David Nasaw tells the full story of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth centurys most famous political dynasty. Nasawthe only biographer granted unrestricted access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Librarytracks Kennedys astonishing passage from East Boston outsider to supreme Washington insider. Kennedys seemingly limitless ambition drove his career to the pinnacles of success as a banker, World War I shipyard manager, Hollywood studio head, broker, Wall Street operator, New Deal presidential adviser, and founding chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. His astounding fall from grace into ignominy did not come until the years leading up to and following Americas entry into the Second World War, when the antiwar position he took as the first Irish American ambassador to London made him the subject of White House ire and popular distaste.
The Patriarch is a story not only of one of the twentieth centurys wealthiest and most powerful Americans, but also of the family he raised and the children who completed the journey he had begun. Of the many roles Kennedy held, that of father was most dear to him. The tragedies that befell his family marked his final years with unspeakable suffering.
The Patriarch looks beyond the popularly held portrait of Kennedy to answer the many questions about his life, times, and legacy that have continued to haunt the historical record. Was Joseph P. Kennedy an appeaser and isolationist, an anti-Semite and a Nazi sympathizer, a stock swindler, a bootlegger, and a colleague of mobsters? What was the nature of his relationship with his wife, Rose? Why did he have his daughter Rosemary lobotomized? Why did he oppose the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Korean War, and American assistance to the French in Vietnam? What was his relationship to J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI? Did he push his second son into politics and then buy his elections for him?
In this pioneering biography, Nasaw draws on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and interviews with Kennedy family members and friends to tell the life 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 a cold war, and the birth of the New Frontier. In studying Kennedys life, we relive with him the history of the American Century.
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ALSO BY DAVID NASAW
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nasaw, David.
The patriarch : the remarkable life and turbulent times of Joseph P. Kennedy / David Nasaw.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-101-59591-6
1. Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969. 2. AmbassadorsUnited StatesBiography. 3. PoliticiansUnited StatesBiography. 4. BusinesspeopleUnited StatesBiography. 5. Kennedy family. I. Title.
E748.K376N37 2012
973.9092dc23
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CONTENTS
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Joseph Patrick Kennedy (18881969, m. 1914)
Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy (18901995, m. 1914), wife of Joseph P. Kennedy
Children and Childrens Spouses
Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. (19151944)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jack (19171963, m. 1953)
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (19291994, m. 1953), wife of John Kennedy
Rose Marie Kennedy, Rosemary (19182005)
Kathleen Agnes Kennedy Hartington, Kick (19201948, m. 1944)
William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, Billy Hartington (19171944, m. 1944), eldest son of the 10th Duke of Devonshire, husband of Kick Kennedy
Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (19212009, m. 1953)
Robert Sargent Shriver, Sargent Shriver or Sarge (19152011, m. 1953), husband of Eunice Kennedy
Patricia Kennedy, Pat (19242006, m. 1954)
Peter Lawford (19231984, m. 1954), husband of Patricia Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy, Bobby (19251968, m. 1950)
Ethel Skakel Kennedy (1928, m. 1950), wife of Robert Kennedy
Jean Ann Kennedy Smith (1928, m. 1956)
Stephen Edward Smith, Steve (19271990, m. 1956), husband of Jean Kennedy
Edward Moore Kennedy, Ted (19322009, m. 1958, 1992)
Joan Bennett Kennedy (1936, m. 1958), first wife of Edward Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedys Parents
Patrick Joseph Kennedy, P.J. (18581929, m. 1887), father of Joseph P. Kennedy
Mary Augusta Hickey Kennedy (18571923, m. 1887), mother of Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedys Paternal Grandparents
Patrick Kennedy (ca. 18231858, m. 1849), grandfather
Bridget Murphy Kennedy (18211888, m. 1849), grandmother
Joseph P. Kennedys Parents-in-Law
John Francis Fitzgerald, Honey Fitz (18631950), father-in-law of Kennedy, mayor of Boston (19061908 and 19101914)
Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald, Josie (18651964), mother-in-law of Kennedy, wife of John Francis Fitzgerald
Dean Acheson, assistant secretary of state (19411945), under secretary of state (1945), secretary of state (19491953)
Robert S. Allen, journalist, co-columnist with Drew Pearson, Washington Merry-Go-Round
Joseph Alsop, Washington columnist
Nancy Astor, Lady Astor, member of Parliament (19191945), Cliveden set
Waldorf Astor, Lord Astor, politician, newspaper owner
Bernard Baruch, businessman, financier, Democratic Party adviser
Lord Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, newspaper owner, minister of aircraft production (19401941), minister of supply (19411942), Kennedy friend
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., Tony, ambassador to Poland (19371943), ambassador to governments in exile (19411943), U.S. Army in Europe (19441955)
Kirk LeMoyne Billings, Lem, JFK friend
John Boettiger, husband of Anna Roosevelt, editor of Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Benjamin C. Bradlee, journalist and editor of Washington Post, Newsweek
Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court justice (19161939), Roosevelt adviser
Bart Brickley, Boston lawyer, Kennedy friend
William Christian Bullitt, Jr., ambassador to France (19361940)
John Burns, law professor, Massachusetts judge, SEC general counsel, Kennedy attorney and friend
Rab Butler, under-secretary of state for foreign affairs (19381941)
James Byrnes, senator from South Carolina (19311941), Supreme Court justice (19411942), Economic Stabilization Office (19421943), secretary of state (19451947)
Sir Alexander Cadogan, permanent under-secretary for foreign affairs (19381946)
Sir James Calder, head of Distillers Company, Kennedy friend
Boake Carter, radio commentator, Kennedy friend
Father John Cavanaugh, president of Notre Dame (19461952), Kennedy friend
Neville Chamberlain, prime minister (19371940)
Winston Churchill, first lord of the Admiralty (19391940), prime minister (19401945)
Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian minister of foreign affairs (19361943), Mussolinis son-in-law
Clark Clifford, Washington lawyer, head of JFK transition team
Ralph Coghlan, editor of St. Louis Post-Dispatch, JFK campaign adviser
Benjamin V. Cohen, attorney, New Deal adviser
Duff Cooper, first lord of the Admiralty (19371938), minister of information (19401941)
Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, attorney, Felix Frankfurter protg, New Deal and Lyndon Johnson adviser
Robert Coughlin, collaborator, ghostwriter for Rose Fitzgerald Kennedys Times to Remember
James Michael Curley, mayor of Boston for several terms, representative from Massachusetts (19111914, 19431947), governor of Massachusetts (19351937)
Guy Currier, Massachusetts legislator, lawyer, lobbyist
Archbishop Richard Cushing, archbishop of Boston (19441970), cardinal (19581970)
Mark Dalton, JFK campaign manager (1946, 1952)
Russell Davenport, managing editor of Fortune magazine
Marion Davies, actress, mistress of William Randolph Hearst
Eddie (E. B.) Derr, Kennedy business associate
Paul A. Dever, candidate for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (1946), governor of Massachusetts (19491953)
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