The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty by Neal Thompson
“I wonder if the true story of Joe Kennedy will ever be known,” an aging Eleanor Roosevelt once said to Gore Vidal, hinting at malevolences undetected even by close students of the diablerie of the Hyannis Port Faust.
Joe’s bargains purchased the White House for the Kennedys, but at a devilish price. With his compulsive sex predation and “second-best is a loser” nihilism, the patriarch warped his offspring.
