John F Kennedy By Alan Brinkley Summary

In Alan Brinkley’s book, John F. Kennedy, which was published originally in 1985, Brinkley in the beginning of the book explains the rise of the Kennedys in politics, wealth, and their background that they came from, which was a catholic community. In the beginning, it describes how his grandfathers. one of them on his mother's side John. F. Fitzgerald was an Irish politician, going so far as to becoming mayor of Boston. The second grandfather on his father’s side, Patrick J. Kennedy, was a man who dropped out of school to help with the struggling family, even still he worked up to own many bars and taverns around the Irish community and later he opened a liquor importing company and a banking enterprise that made him very wealthy and substantial