Joseph Patrick KennedyIt is understandable why many people believe John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the most important Irish American He was the first Catholic president, a trailblazer who visited his family’s ancestral home in Ireland just months before he was fatally shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963But there would have been no JFK without JPK - his father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy of East BostonEsteemed historian David Nasaw has just released a 900-page biography of the old man entitled The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P Read more
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