If ever an American family came to resemble a Greek tragedy, it was that of Joseph P. Kennedy. The patriarch of the Kennedy clan, he amassed millions of dollars in the stock market, Hollywood, and, allegedly, Prohibition-era bootlegging, pouring much of it into the search for political power.
Unsparing in its dissection of Joseph P. Kennedy's methods in raising his fortune, as well as his use of it to promote the political careers of sons John, Robert, and Ted, the video digs deep into the various psyches involved.