1912-1993

In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912-1993) boarded the St. Elena in New York Harbor and sailed for Casablanca as part of Operation Torch, the massive Allied invasion of North Africa. As a member of the US Army's 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group, he spent the next thirty-four months working in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany, in close proximity to the front lines and often under air or artillery bombardment. Kennedy participated in some of the fiercest action of the war, including Operation Avalanche, the attack on Anzio, and Operation Dragoon. He also arrived in Rome the day after the Allied troops, and entered the Dachau concentration camp two days after it was liberated.

The author discusses the broken relationship between his father and uncle, twins born Jewish and raised Catholic whose Holocaust experiences--one found shelter in a monasticcommunity while the other was interned in a Nazi camp--set them on different spiritual paths and led each to see the other as a traitor to the family faith.

Follows the life of Patricia Nixon from childhood to the White House, where she served as first lady during the administration of her husband Richard, the thirty-seventh president of the United States.

A biography of an intensely private person remembered for many achievements as First Lady and admired for loyalty to her husband, the thirty-seventh president of the United States.