The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Historian David Nasaw's biography of Joseph P. Kennedy, founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published material from archives on three continents and interviews with family members and friends, it follows Kennedy through the booms and busts, the Depression and the New Deal, two world wars, the Cold War and the birth of the New Frontier.