The Remarkable and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 7, 2012

Celebrated historian David Nasaw discusses his new biography of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the 20th century's most famous political dynasty. Nasaw was granted unrestricted access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, and in The Patriarch: The Remarkable and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy he tracks Kennedy's rise from East Boston outsider to supreme Washington insider.

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