| Author/Contributor(s): | Leamer, Laurence |
| Publisher: | William Morrow Paperbacks |
| Date: | 10/15/2002 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
An unflinching multigenerational history of power, ambition, and sacrifice in America’s most celebrated political dynasty.
The author opens this chronicle in East Boston, following P. J. Kennedy from saloonkeeper to ward boss. The narrative tracks Joseph P. Kennedy through Harvard and Wall Street, charting the ambition that built a dynasty.
This volume follows four brothers—Joe Jr., Jack, Bobby, and Teddy—as their father steers them into athletic rivalry, wartime combat, and political power. The account reveals their private trials, including Jack’s concealed illnesses and the bitter rivalries behind their triumphs.
The renowned biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women returns with this first volume in a multigenerational history that will forever change the way America views its most famous family ...
- Biographies of Famous People: Follow Joe Kennedy Sr. from East Boston street hustler to Wall Street millionaire, including how political leverage over Boston movie theater licenses helped secure his coveted Harvard baseball letter against Yale in 1911.
- Against the Odds: Witness Jack Kennedy’s desperate survival in the Blackett Strait after a Japanese destroyer sliced PT-109 in two, towing his badly burned engineer Patrick McMahon for hours by clenching a life-jacket strap in his teeth.
- Political Science: Discover Bobby Kennedy’s relentless crusade as chief counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, confronting Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa and uncovering deep-seated labor corruption and organized crime.
- Raw Honesty: Uncover the competitive pressure driving Joe Kennedy Jr. to volunteer for a hazardous top-secret mission, boarding a drone bomber laden with twenty thousand pounds of Torpex explosives over wartime England.
- Also by This Author: Sons of Camelot and King of the Night.