The Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

Boldly original and fully documented, this unauthorized yet definitive biography tells the almost incredible story of Joseph P. Kennedy, grandson of a poor Irish immigrant, controversial founder of a great American fortune, and father of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.
Joe Kennedy, a single-minded capitalist, made big money in booming Wall Street, Hollywood movies, corporate reorganizations, liquor distribution, and New York and Chicago real estate speculation. An early New Dealer who helped elect Franklin D. Roosevelt and dreamed of becoming the first Catholic President, he supported appeasement of Hitler and failed as FDR's pre-World War II Ambassador to London. That seemed to end his dream.

But the ruthless, iron-willed Kennedy rebounded. He shifted his ambitions to his sons and used his showman's savvy to found an image-centered political dynasty, translating wealth into unprecedented power...until tragedy intervened. Jack and Bobby were both assassinated.

Whalen's enduring classic of investigative scholarship was the first book to portray the Kennedys as real people, "warts and all". Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the fair, balanced, and fearless Founding Father is the starting point of the fascinating Kennedy family saga.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
RW
Richard Whalen
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
26:32
hr min
RELEASED
2005
March 11
PUBLISHER
Whalen Consulting Group
PRESENTED BY
Audible.com
SIZE
1.2
GB

Customer Reviews

Gail Apkarian ,

The Worst Reader!

The book is good, but the reader is not only monotone and boring, but EVERY time there's a quote in the book, he says quote, end quote. This is our duty, said Roosevelt - can't we figure out that's a quote? Do we need to hear, quote, This is our duty, end quote, said Roosevelt? Really? Soooo annoying, not sure I can finish listening.

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