The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded Hardcover - 1996
by Ronald Kessler
This first serious volume to focus exclusively on Joseph Patrick Kennedy in 30 years details both Kennedy's enormous accomplishments and the terrible personal losses he suffered. Kessler offers stunning new insights into Kennedy's sex life, the horrifying, real story of his daughter Rosemary's illness, the depth of his anti-Semitism and ties to the Nazis, his full relationship with the Catholic Church, and more. of photos.
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The Sins of the Father is the definitive new biography of Joseph P. Kennedy. Based on extensive research and interviews with Kennedy family members and their intimates speaking on the record for the first time, it offers an outstanding personal history - and provides shocking revelations about one of the most influential figures of our time. To the mythmakers of his day, Joseph P. Kennedy, like his glamorous and doomed presidential son Jack, led a charmed existence. He was celebrated as the son of an East Boston saloonkeeper who rose to become one of the richest men in the country. He served as the wartime ambassador to Great Britain, the chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and the chairman of the United States Maritime Commission. He was also a major legitimate liquor distributor, a moviemaker in Hollywood, and a master manipulator of the stock market. Yet his fortune, estimated at $100 million, traced its beginnings to his career as a bootlegger in partnership with organized crime during the Prohibition era. Even more disturbing, he was a documented anti-Semite and an appeaser of Adolf Hitler. The beaming family portraits and admiring newsmagazine prose never portrayed any of his many mistresses - or hinted at his seemingly unlimited corruption and duplicity.
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- Title The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded
- Author Ronald Kessler
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Grand Central Publishing, New York
- Date 1996-03-14
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780446518840 / 0446518840
- Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.3 x 1.61 in (23.57 x 16.00 x 4.09 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Kennedy family, Businesspeople - United States - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95061889
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Library Journal, 11/15/1995, Page 0
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 11/15/1995, Page 54
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