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Language
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Description
Renehan shows how family patriarch Joseph was an ambitious but occasionally embarrassing diplomat, while wartime disaster elevated second son John to great heights. Sisters Kathleen and Rosemary also emerge as strong individuals in this compelling glimpse at the great American dynasty.--
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First ediion.
Physical Desc
290 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
On August 12, 1944, Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., heir to one of America's most glamorous fortunes, son of the disgraced former ambassador to Great Britain, and big brother to freshly minted PT-109 hero JFK, hoisted himself up into a highly modified B-24 Liberator bomber. The munitions he was carrying that day were fifty percent more powerful than TNT. Kennedy's mission was part of Operation Aphrodite/Project Anvil, a desperate American effort...
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 351 pages : illustrations (some color), portrets ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A selection of more than 300 images collected by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (many never seen before) that capture the formative years of a uniquely American dynasty and detail the family's progress as it grows from a pair of turn-of-the-century newlyweds into a populous, vibrant clan of hopeful young men and women on the brink of their brilliant destinies.
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