His Dad was a politician, so you right, he did come from money and power. But at the same time his Dad was a politician in Boston in the 1800’s, where it was basically Tammany Hall status, the lines between politics and the streets wasn’t that clear. Gangs back then was heavily involved in political corruption, basically a Cac Boston version of Gangs of New York or even that 70’s/80’s yardie shyt in Jamaica. He was a gangster, just an old throw back example of one that most folks can’t relate to today cuz politics (on the surface) are totally different now. Not sure how his beginnings was overrated, he got even richer than he already was off an illegal substance, and parlayed that into one of the most well known Cac dynasties in America. The dude was a crook, he broke bread with the most important mobsters of his time, even got his son into the White House off a favor from the Chicago Mob. JFK would’ve lost to Nixon in ‘60 had Chicago not sent the goons out to scare folks into voting. Not sure how you can say he’s overrated, that kinda sounds like the makings of a Cac snow job/history re write to me.
