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The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (Hardcover)
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The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (Hardcover)
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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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