JFK & his Papa: David Nasaw’s light on The Patriarch
We grew up thinking of Joseph P. Kennedy as a Hitler appeaser, a Catholic libertine, a complicated embarrassment and obstacle for his political sons to get around… David Nasaw’s brilliant biography of The Patriarch makes it a far richer story of a father and specially JFK, much more like than different in thought and action, triumph and frustration.
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