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Kennedy, Joseph

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Kennedy, Joseph (Patrick)

(1888–1969) financier; born in Boston, Mass. (father of John Fitzgerald Kennedy). A Boston banker and movie financier (1926–30), he made millions on insider stock deals, but set tough standards as President Roosevelt's chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1934–35). Recalled in disgrace as a pro-German ambassador to Great Britain (1938–40), he retired from public life but financed the careers of his charismatic sons.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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The author of this study provides an interesting examination of the founder of the Kennedy family dynasty, Joseph P. Kennedy. Taking advantage of extensive access to Kennedy's heretofore unseen files; numerous interviews with family, friends, and enemies; and multiple archival and secondary sources, David Nasaw paints a picture of an immensely ambitious but deeply flawed man whose impact on American history is underrated.
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The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
Perhaps the most well-known of the Navy Liberator pilots was Lt Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., scion of the Massachusetts political family and namesake of its patriarch, the former U.S.
His candidacy could find support from two widely disparate sources: Conservatives and Libertarians in favor of small government and deregulation; and Democratic voters who mistake him for a member of the Kennedy clan, including Joseph P. Kennedy II, a former U.S.
As executive vice president of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
Having previously assessed Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969) in his The Roosevelts and the Royals as "an opportunistic thorn in the president's side" during his 1000-day ambassadorship in Britain on the eve of World War II, the author now believes Kennedy deserves a more balanced assessment regarding his time in the US Embassy in London.
The same year, one of Robert's children, Joseph P. Kennedy II, wrecked his Jeep in an accident that left a family friend paralysed.
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