A portrait of the country's favorite political dynasty as the
ultimate Irish Catholic family-and a revelatory look at how the
American immigrant experience shaped both their stunning success
and spectacular tragedies. . Meticulously researched both here and
abroad, THE KENNEDYS examines the Kennedy's as exemplars of the
Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival
in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Maier delves into the
deeper currents of the often spectacular Kennedy story, and the
ways in which their immigrant background shaped their values-and in
turn twentieth-century America-for over five generations. As the
first and only Roman Catholic ever elected to high national office
in this country, JFK's pioneering campaign for president rested on
a tradition of navigating a cultural divide that began when Joseph
Kennedy shed the brogues of the old country in order to get ahead
on Wall Street. Whether studied exercise in cultural self-denial or
sheer pragmatism, their movements mirror that of countless of
other, albeit less storied, American families. But as much as the
Kennedys distanced themselves from their religion and ethnic
heritage on the public stag
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