The Patriarch · the Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by Nasaw, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Also by David Nasaw Title Page Copyright Cast of Characters Introduction Part I: East Boston to Cambridge to Brookline

One: Dunganstown to East Boston Two: School Days Three: Starting Out Four: War Five: Making a Million

Part II: Hollywood

Six: “My Own Master in My Own Business” Seven: Hollywood Eight: Gloria and Rose Nine: Last Exit from Hollywood

Part III: Washington

Ten: On the Roosevelt Train Eleven: Waiting for the Call Twelve: To Washington Thirteen: Reelecting Roosevelt Fourteen: Maritime Commissioner

Part IV: London

Fifteen: A Plainspoken Ambassador Sixteen: A Rather Dreadful Homecoming Seventeen: Munich Eighteen: The Kennedy Plan Nineteen: Sidelined and Censored Twenty: “This Country Is at War with Germany” Twenty-one: The Lives of Americans Are at Stake Twenty-two: Defeatist Twenty-three: The Fall of France Twenty-four: The Worst of Times Twenty-five: There’s Hell to Pay Tonight

Part V: Washington, but Briefly

Twenty-six: Home Again Twenty-seven: The Man Who Out-Hamleted Hamlet

Part VI: Palm Beach and Hyannis Port

Twenty-eight: A Forced Retirement Twenty-nine: War Thirty: “A Melancholy Business” Thirty-one: The Candidate’s Father Thirty-two: Family Matters Thirty-three: “The Great Debate” Thirty-four: The Next Senator from Massachusetts Thirty-five: Retirement Thirty-six: Making Money and Giving It Away Thirty-seven: The Catholic Candidate Thirty-eight: Electing a President Thirty-nine: “He Belongs to the Country” Forty: “No!”

Photographs Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography of Works Cited Index Photograph Credits About the Author