Joseph P. Kennedy presents: his Hollywood years

List of Illustrations

Preface

1. "America's Youngest Bank President"

2. "This Is Another Telephone"

3. "I Have Just Reorganized the Company"

4. "Fight like Hell to Win"

5. "We Have Valued Your Advice and Assistance"

6. "I'm Beginning to Think I'm a 'Picture Man'"

7. "I Never Needed a Vacation Less"

8. "The Inner Cabinet of the Film Industry"

9. "All Records Have Been Broken"

10. "The Reigning Queen of the Movies"

11. "Together We Could Make Millions"

12. "Like a Roped Horse"

13. "Industry Wide Influence and Respect"

14. "I Have Gone into the Vaudeville Game"

15. "Another Big Deal in Prospect"

16. "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet"

17. "Swinging the Axe"

18. "Now He's Back and Almost Anything May Happen"

19. "The Dollar Sign Implanted in His Heart"

20. "Gilding the Manure Pile"

21. "Give Our Love to Gloria"

22. "Having Tea with His Wife and My Husband and the Vicar"

23. "Things Are Bad Enough Here"

24. "A Good Trick If You Can Do It"

25. "I Am Now Definitely Out of the Motion Picture Industry"

26. "The Richest Irish American in the World"

27. "Wall Street Awaits Kennedy's Findings"

28. "The Embers of Terror, Isolationism, and Racism"

Epilogue: "The First and Only Outsider to Fleece Hollywood"

Author's Note

Notes

Bibliography

Index