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

By David Nasaw

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.

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• Patrick Bet-David: “Can't put this book down.”
• Warren Buffett: “We're just about through reading the Joe Kennedy biography... I'm not sure you want to emulate everything he did, but it's still interesting reading.”