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Originally published 05/19/2013
Was Joseph Kennedy Really an Anti-Semite?
JFK's father is popularly remembered as an isolationist, pro-appeasement anti-Semite. Is this fair?
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Originally published 02/05/2013
Joe Kennedy, Cold War Critic
Reviewers have barely mentioned Kennedy’s Cold War critique.
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Originally published 05/12/2008
Why It's Time to Give Joseph Kennedy a Break
In his magisterial biography Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Conrad Black points out that Joseph P. Kennedy, President Roosevelt’s ambassador to Great Britain from 1938 to 1940 was “ultimately widely reckoned to be one of the worst diplomatic appointments in the history of the United States.”
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Originally published 04/29/2002
Joseph Kennedy and the Jews
Arriving at London in early 1938, newly-appointed U.S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy took up quickly with another transplanted American.
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