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Reviewed on July 1, 2021 | Social Sciences
British American biographer Ronald (Condé Nast: The Man and His Empire) employs her transatlantic perspective in this unblinking narrative focusing on the ambassadorial years of a consequential founder of a political dynasty. Competitive, quick-tempered, ambitious, and financially brilliant, Joseph P. Kennedy (1888–1969) became the first Irish Catholic emissary to the United Kingdom from the United States. He intended this conspicuous position to clear a path to electing the first Irish Catholic U.S. president (either himself or one ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More