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6 83 Beals Street: Bruce Gellerman, “John F. Kennedy, a Son of Massachusetts,” WBUR News, November 1, 2011.
7 “no place to bring up children”: Maier, The Kennedys, 91.
8 1963 Fortune profile of Kennedy: Whalen, “Joseph P. Kennedy.”
9 “why he hadn’t told her”: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (New York: Warner Books, 1996), 38.
10 “Very, very happy times”: “The Kennedy Family—Their Ties to Bronxville,” My Hometown Bronxville, September 2, 2009.
11 “Home holds no fear for me”: Edward M. Kennedy, True Compass (New York: Twelve, 2009), 30–31.
12 “Dinner at Uncle Joe’s”: Kessler, The Sins of the Father, 42.
13 “fly into a rage”: Thomas Reeves, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy (New York: Free Press, 1991), 34–35.
14 “taught us to listen”: Adam Clymer, “Rose Kennedy Is Lauded for Her Faith,” New York Times, January 25, 1995.
15 “burdens of business”: Maier, The Kennedys, 74.
16 “Took care of children”: Barbara A. Perry, Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013), 69.
17 “memory of mine”: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 75.
18 “symbol of ‘American efficiency’”: Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember, 73.
19 “I see him on TV”: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 15–16.
Chapter 2
1 “couldn’t for the life of him understand”: Gloria Swanson, Swanson on Swanson (New York: Random House, 1980), 331.
2 “just like Joe Stalin”: Cari Beauchamp, “The Mogul in Mr. Kennedy,” Vanity Fair, April 2002.
3 “wild meat”: Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (New York: Little, Brown, 2003), 24.
4 Swanson’s extravagant expenditures: Peter Sheridan, “Gloria Swanson: A Star Ahead of Her Time,” Express (UK), August 17, 2013.
5 Average American income: Treasury Department Bureau of Internal Revenue, Statistics of Income for 1927 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1929).
6 Gloria Productions, Inc.: Swanson, Swanson on Swanson, 349.
7 “a letter to the files”: Beauchamp, “The Mogul in Mr. Kennedy.”
8 “taken the business load off”: Swanson, Swanson on Swanson, 366.
9 “the largest private telephone bill”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, 24.
10 “No longer, no longer”: Swanson, Swanson on Swanson, 356–57.
11 “no Kennedy baby”: Swanson, 366.
12 “If he was in Europe”: Kessler, The Sins of the Father, 274.
13 “your beloved husband is no different”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 396.
14 “poor little Gloria”: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (New York: Warner Books, 1996), 79.
15 “Was she a fool”: Barbara A. Perry, Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013), 76.
16 “only outsider to fleece Hollywood”: Beauchamp, “The Mogul in Mr. Kennedy.”
17 “I’ve never had a failure”: Swanson, Swanson on Swanson, 373.
18 Queen Kelly: Stephen Harvey, “Queen Kelly Opens—More Than Fifty Years Late,” New York Times, September 22, 1985.
19 Alexander Pantages: Kessler, The Sins of the Father, 57–59.
20 “He’s a charmer”: Beauchamp, “The Mogul in Mr. Kennedy.”
21 Frances Marion’s salary: Erin Blakemore, “This Forgotten Female Screenwriter Helped Give Hollywood Its Voice,” Time, January 21, 2016.
22 “Frances rarely said”: Beauchamp, “The Mogul in Mr. Kennedy.”
Chapter 3
1 “shoeshine boy”: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (New York: Warner Books, 1996), 82.
2 “It takes a thief”: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 45.
3 “simple and honest”: Address of Honorable Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission, National Press Club, July 25, 1934.
4 “sweep them into the sea”: Richard J. Whalen, “Joseph P. Kennedy: A Portrait of the Founder,” Fortune, 1963 (Fortune Classics, April 10, 2011).
5 Marwood: Daniela Deane, “Where the Kennedys and Gores Played,” Washington Post, February 14, 2004.
6 “not expecting too much”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 83.
7 Arthur Krock: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 62.
8 “foster-father”: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 62.
9 “Secretaryship of Commerce”: Arthur Krock, recorded interview by Charles Bartlett, May 10, 1964, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program, 4.
10 “the power of the presidency”: James Roosevelt, My Parents: A Differing View (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1976), 208–10.