The Sins Of The Father: Joseph P Kennedy

And The Dynasty He Founded

Joseph P Kennedy is remembered as being US ambassador to Britain at the start of World War II, head of the powerful Irish-American Kennedy clan and the father of President Jack Kennedy. In this definitive new biography, Kennedy family members and their intimates reveal the real story behind the image of the perfect family.

Here is a portrait of a man hungry for power, of a father who had his mentally ill daughter lobotomised, a staunch Catholic who brashly paraded his mistresses, the ambassador to war-time Britain who admired the Nazis and the grandson of Irish immigrants who resented other minorities.

This exhaustive research makes for an outstanding personal history of this masterfully manipulative man and the forces and events that shaped him.