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The Patriarch by David Nasaw
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Sep 24, 2013 | ISBN 9780143124078

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One of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year
One of Kirkus’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year


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Riveting…The Patriarch is a book hard to put down…As his son indelibly put it some months before his father was struck down: ‘Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your county.’ One wonders what was going through the mind of the patriarch, sitting a few feet away listening to that soaring sentiment as a fourth-generation Kennedy became president of the United States.  After coming to know him over the course of this brilliant, compelling book, the reader might suspect that he was thinking he had done more than enough for his country.  But the gods would demand even more.” – New York Times Book Review

“David Nasaw’s The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy is the sort of biography that begs to be called ‘magisterial.’Boston Globe

“Mr. Nasaw has the rare ability to see the big picture and frame the detail with careful scholarship — all the while making room for elements that do not fit — which in Joe Kennedy’s case is quite a lot…. Mr. Nasaw’s is a literate and searching exposition of the patriarch’s life that offers the reader compelling answers to questions about JPK…. If The Patriarch doesn’t scoop up some serious accolades for the writing of American history, the fix is in.” – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
 

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