Bzdek shines in his selection of details that reveal the Kennedy’s humanity: Joseph Sr. It’s not a highly original insight, but the author delineates it succinctly and compellingly. Bzdek sees the Kennedy legacy not as a brief, shining moment, but as an ongoing part of the modern American story, with each brother continuing the mission of his predecessors. In the final act, Edward, too, runs for president and eventually becomes the lion of the U.S. Act III follows Robert as he soldiers on after John’s assassination, becoming a senator and a presidential candidate, only to be shot in 1968. In the second act, John takes Joe Jr.’s place and goes from congressman to senator to president in scarcely over a decade. Kennedy, who groomed his sons for politics from a very young age it ends with the death in World War II of Joseph Kennedy Jr., oldest brother and the family’s political hope. Washington Post news editor and features writer Bzdek ( Woman of the House: The Rise of Nancy Pelosi, 2007) recasts the brothers’ famous story in four acts, as each picks up the torch in the aftermath of tragedy.Īct I chronicles their childhood under a harsh father, Joseph P.
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