Jumat, 09 Juni 2017

American History Book Review: The Patriarch

The Patriarch by David Nasaw, Penguin Press Joseph P. Kennedy was larger than life, and The Patriarch is his epic biography. Renowned historian David Nasaw had unfettered access to Kennedy family materials; his 800-page opus fills in much previously left to rumor and hearsay and encompasses the fascinating contradictions of “a man of boundless talents, …

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