Max Kennedy

[10] After three years in the prosecutor's office,[10] he moved to Los Angeles,[6] where he lived in Brentwood,[10] and interrupted his legal career to compile a book on his father.

[12] Kennedy later returned to the East Coast to lead the Watershed Institute at Boston College,[6] an environmental nonprofit group,[13] and was chairman of the re-election campaign of his uncle, U.S.

[15] Kennedy wrote Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her, which was released by Simon & Schuster in 2008.

[16] The book examines the story of the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill during the Japanese naval assault of May 1945, in the final chapters of the Second World War.

Kirkus Reviews said of the book that Kennedy "describes that attack and its aftermath in scarifying detail that is not for the squeamish" and assessed it as "useful to students of the last months of the Pacific War, though less so than" preceding works on the kamikaze by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney and David Sears.

[15][21] Kennedy was nominated by President Obama to serve as a member of the Board of the Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), and the Senate confirmed him by voice vote in October 2011.

[citation needed] In 2004, along with his mother and siblings, Kennedy supported the demolition of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles (the site of his father's 1968 murder) in order to make way for a new public school complex.

[28] Kennedy has endorsed incumbent Democrat Joe Biden's reelection campaign in the 2024 United States presidential election over a third-party/independent challenge by his brother Robert.