Joseph Kennedy

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• May 2012
  

  Was Joseph Kennedy Really an Anti-Semite?

  by Fatima Ahmed-Farouta

  JFK's father is popularly remembered as an isolationist, pro-appeasement anti-Semite. Is this fair?

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2-4-13
  

  Joe Kennedy, Cold War Critic

  by Jon Wiener

  Reviewers have barely mentioned Kennedy’s Cold War critique.

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• Why It's Time to Give Joseph Kennedy a Break

  by Will Swift

  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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• Joseph Kennedy and the Jews

  by Edward Renehan, Jr.

  Arriving at London in early 1938, newly-appointed U.S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy took up quickly with another transplanted American.