The Kennedys at war, 1937-1945
By: Edward J. Renehan, Jr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780385501651
Subjects: Kennedy family.; Kennedy, Joseph P. 1888-1969.; Kennedy, Joseph P. 1915-1944.; Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963.; Kennedy, Kathleen, d. 1948.; Politicians -- United States -- Biography.; World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.; World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- London.; London (England) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "From breathless hagiographies to scandal-mongering exposes, no family has generated more bestselling books than the Kennedys. None of them, however, has focused on the watershed period of World War II, when the course of the family and its individual members changed utterly. Now, in a narrative grounded in impeccable scholarship, Edward J. Renehan, Jr., provides a dramatic portrait of years marked by family tensions, heartbreaks, and heroics.

It was during this time that tragedy began to haunt the family - Joe Jr.'s death, the untimely widowhood of Kathleen (a.k.a. "Kick"), Rosemary's lobotomy. But it was also the time in which John F. Kennedy rose above the strictures of the clan and became his own man."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-340) and index.
Table of contents: title: Kennedy confidence; title: Ambassador; title: Rotten row; title: Wonderful time; title: Worthy successor; title: Peace with honor; title: Unrelenting antagonism; title: Era ending; title: Upstart ignoramus; title: Fortune subsiding; title: Combination of the Holy Ghost and Jack Dempsey; title: Charades; title: Jackals and betrayers; title: Dummy; title: "Democracy is all finished in England"; title: Neither one thing nor another; title: Most dangerous thing there is; title: Backwater; title: Rather like Choate; title: "Shafty" Kennedy; title: Tulagi; title: Life in addition to fortune knows God; title: Survival time; title: Great deal in the way of death; title: Just like Lazarus; title: Squaring the circle; title: Anvil; title: Nothing will ever be the same