Then Joe Sr.'s money vanished and he found work as a car salesman but one who went to work attired in a sport coat with ascot.
Joe Sr. then hitched his wagon to the fortunes of a maternal uncle-in-law, Bill Sheene, Sr. who had married the sister of Joe Sr.'s Mother.
According to Joe Jr., after the war, Joe Sr. "Lost everything he had built up."
Joe Sr. then moved to Old Westbury, Long Island, near a cousin - Bill Sheene Jr., who did have a lot of money and a 20-room house with stables, a squash court, and a tennis court.
Joe Sr. would drive his family through the wealthy neighborhoods.
Joe Jr.'s brother, Jimmy, recently revealed as sharing proceeds from foreign entities with other family members, said that Joe Sr. had "Felt we should have been in there, and that what he was doing was something less than he wanted to do for us."
Adam Entous' history of Joe Biden Jr.'s father and grandfather, coupled with our common familiarity with the power of family legacies to shape our identities for better or for worse give rise to a question: how much trauma have Joe Biden, Jr., his brother Jimmy, and his son Hunter suffered from generational status deprivation and status envy, of not being accepted as successful "Lace-curtain Irish"?
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