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“The Patriarch”: Joseph Kennedy Sr.’s Outsized Life

JFK Sr.

Jacob Heilbrunn on Joseph Sr., the anti-Semitic Hollywood dynamo who proves to be the most interesting Kennedy of all.

Jacob Heilbrunn
Jacob Heilbrunn
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Jacob Heilbrunn

Jacob Heilbrunn

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