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...FOUNDING FATHER, by Richard Whalen. The facts of Joe Kennedy's career-the fortunes he made in oil and real estate and his swift conversion of money into power for himself and his sons-need no embellishment; his life is a blueprint for the wheeler-dealer and the kingmaker...
BOOKS Best Reading THE FOUNDING FATHER, by Richard Whalen. The facts of Joe Kennedy's career, the fortunes he made in oil and real estate, and his swift conversion of money into power for himself and his sons need no embellishment; his life is a blueprint for the wheeler-dealer and the kingmaker...
...book began as an article in FORTUNE (January 1963) that was reprinted in LIFE. Biographer Whalen, an associate editor of FORTUNE, took leave from the magazine to write the book, which he did without any explicit help from Joe Kennedy or any other member of the family. But the available material is voluminous, and the story is vividly told and carefully documented...
...Kennedy, however, made the mistake of putting her in one of his pictures, Queen Kelly, which featured such gamy scenes as a priest administering the last rites to a madman dying in a bordello. The Kennedy-Swanson team split up in acrimony. "I questioned his judgment," Gloria Swanson told Whalen. "He did not like to be questioned...
...career in politics shattered, Kennedy concentrated on his sons' careers. "His would be the driving will, theirs the legs that would go the distance," writes Whalen. Joe contributed not money alone but prodigious energy to Jack's various election campaigns. Staying in the background, not trying to influence Jack's opinions, he masterminded campaign strategy, persuaded acquaintances all over the country to help...