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Starred Review on January 1, 2022 | Social Sciences
Journalist Thompson (Kickflip Boys) may surprise both general readers and historians with a Kennedy book based on newly accessible materials and differently focused on the family's first members in the United States: John F. Kennedy Jr.'s Irish immigrant paternal great grandparents. Benefiting from the papers in the Kennedy Library of P.J. Kennedy (the only surviving son of Bridget Murphy Kennedy and her husband Patrick) as well as digital ancestry databases, this winsomely written book employs cultur...Log In or Sign Up to Read More