Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years Audiobook

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• “Beauchamp’s smart…new book, suggests that nothing…prepared [Kennedy] for presidential politics the way his time in the picture business did.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “An exceptional work of film scholarship, packed with information no one had uncovered before that reads like a juicy novel.”

  — Vanity Fair

• “[A] crackling page-turner…Beauchamp demonstrates again and again, that apart from [Kennedy’s] abiding love and concern for his nine children (and perhaps a few others, including Marion Davies), the bottom line was everything.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Rarely has [Kennedy’s time in Hollywood] been documented in such meticulous detail…Well-written and well researched, Beauchamp’s book is a probing examination of the man in the industry during perhaps its most fascinating period.”

  — Chicago Sun-Times

• “Fascinating…The intellect, the intuition, the gumption, the gall, the vision, and the restless ambition of the founding father are meticulously documented.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Beauchamp serves up with gusto many measures of gossipy history and historical gossip…One hell of a story.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “Beauchamp deserves great credit for bringing Joseph P. Kennedy into sharp focus with a wealth of detail…Beauchamp has succeeded not only in finding a new way of telling the story, but one which adds to it much we didn’t know before.”

  — Michael Korda, Daily Beast

• “[Ward] does well at keeping the listener engaged…her attention to the narrative and expository elements helps listeners get through Beauchamp’s meticulous research.”

  — AudioFile 

• “Richly detailed…An engrossing account of a man many only think they know and of some of the golden years of American filmmaking.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “Pam Ward’s narration is clear and expressive; the reedy Boston accent she employs when voicing Kennedy is dead-on hilarious. Recommended for those interested in the Kennedys and for movie history and popular culture buffs.”

  — Library Journal