David Nasaw's biography of Joseph P. Kennedy, entitled The Patriarch, raises familiar memes about the patriarch of the Kennedy clan: how he prowled ar...
The Patriarch is the perfect title for the life story of Joseph Patrick Kennedy. It resounds with the drama of rolling drums to introduce a paterfamilias who created one of America's most powerful political dynasties
In the tale of two party conventions, Massachusetts Republicans will find their decades-long challenge.
Joseph P. Kennedy III, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy and the son of former Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II, announced Thursday that he will fo...
If you admire JFK's idealism and the spirit of civility and hope that he inspired in our nation, you will be appalled by Stephen Kronish's endlessly salacious entertainment at JFK's posthumous expense.
Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."
Son of a wealthy Irish businessman, turned ambassador, brother of a president, brother of an attorney general, he endured and was an effective leader because he understood pain and loss.
When I was a girl I thought Caroline Kennedy was the only other Caroline in the world besides the ones in my family; Caroline is my 'real' name and also the name of my mother and her mother too.
The Empire State is a triumvirate uniting the House of Clinton, the House of Cuomo and the House of Paterson. Would reviving the Kennedy dynasty disturb this delicate ecological balance?
