Thomas Maier: The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings
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A Five-Generation History of the Ultimate Irish-Catholic Family
Drawing on groundbreaking research both here and abroad, including newly available documents from the Joseph P. Kennedy archive at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Maier's clear-eyed portrait of the Kennedys, spanning five generations, examines the family through the prism of their Irish-Catholic experience. He shows how their ethnicity and religion shaped the choices they made beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848 and impacted on their political and personal behaviors.
Thomas Maier is a staff reporter at New York Newsday. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Dr. Spock: An American Life, which was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year" and was chosen by The Boston Globe as one of the top ten nonfiction titles of the year.
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Cover from "The Kennedys"