Hostage To Fortune by Amanda Smith. She's a granddaughter of Joseph P Kennedy; the book is letters to and from him--to his family, businesssmen, political figures and others. What an amazing person--and a worm. Anti-Semetic, bosom buddy of Joe McCarthy, stock manipulator, philanderer (book seems to gloss over this last one), clearly a defeatist as US Ambassador to the UK-- (seemed to look for reasons to retreat to Fortress America and let England sink or swim without even Lend-Lease. Blamed FDR for the death of his first-born--after supporting him in 3 campaigns, in 1944 called him a bastard. And this is all in letters he himself wrote, as collected by his granddaughter.