Top Highlights

• His life was punctuated by meteoric rises, catastrophic falls, and numerous rebirths, by cascading joys and blinding sorrows, and by a tragic ending
• His anger and his hatreds were legendary, especially at those whom he believed had betrayed him.
• He fought to open doors that were closed to him, then having forced his way inside, he refused to play by the rules.
• Joseph P. Kennedy grew up the pampered son of a powerful and respected East Boston ward leader and businessman,
• crossed the Inner Harbor to Boston Latin, where he led a near charmed life as a star athlete, class president, and boyfriend of the mayor’s very pretty daughter.