The Remarkable Kennedys.

MCCARTHY, Joe. [Joseph P. Kennedy; John F. Kennedy; Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Ethel Kennedy; Ted Kennedy; Joan Kennedy; Patricia Kennedy Crawford; Peter Lawford; Jean Kennedy Smith; Stephen Edward Smith].

Item Number: 146281

1960: The Dial Press, New York.

First edition of McCarthy’s account of the rise of the extraordinary Kennedy family. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed on the front free endpaper by Joseph P. Kennedy, Peter Lawford, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy, Joan Kennedy, Jacqueline, Kennedy, Stephen Smith, Jean K. [Kennedy] Smith, and Patricia K. [Kennedy] Crawford. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rear jacket panel photograph of John F. Kennedy with Jacqueline Kennedy and their daughter Caroline by Jacques Lowe. Jacket design by Joseph Kemmer. A remarkable and unprecedented association copy, bringing together the signatures of the most prominent members of one most recognizable and admired families in American politics.

The Kennedy family has been prominent in American politics, public service, entertainment, and business since the turn of the 20th century when Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy became the first Kennedy elected to public office, serving in the Massachusetts state legislature until 1895. At least one Kennedy family member served in federal elective office from 1947, when P. J. Kennedy's grandson John F. Kennedy became a member of Congress from Massachusetts, until 2011, when Patrick J. Kennedy II (John's nephew) retired as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island. P. J.'s son Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and his wife, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, had nine children, including John F. Kennedy, who served in both houses of the United States Congress and as U.S. President; Robert F. Kennedy, who served as U.S. Attorney General and as a U.S. Senator; and Ted Kennedy, who served more than 46 years in the U.S. Senate. Other descendants include members of the U.S. House of Representatives, two U.S. ambassadors, one U.S. envoy, a lieutenant governor, three state legislators (one of whom also served in the U.S. House of Representatives), and one mayor. Published in 1960, American reporter and non-fiction writer Joe McCarthy's The Remarkable Kennedys chronicles the rise of the extraordinary family with a focus on the budding career of ambitious Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy.