Rosemary : the hidden Kennedy daughter / Kate Clifford Larson.
Larson, Kate Clifford, author.
2015
RC464.K38 L37 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Rosemary : the hidden Kennedy daughter / Kate Clifford Larson.
Author Larson, Kate Clifford, author.
ISBN 9780547250250 (hardcover)
0547250258 (hardcover)
9780547617954
054761795X
Published Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Language English
Description 302 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number RC464.K38 L37 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.196890092 B
Summary Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled the world with her high-spirited sisters. And yet, Rosemary was intellectually disabled -- a secret fiercely guarded by her powerful and glamorous family. Rose Kennedy's diaries and correspondence, school and doctors' letters, and exclusive family interviews bring Rosemary alive as a girl adored but left far behind by her competitive siblings. Kate Larson reveals both the sensitive care Rose and Joe gave to Rosemary and then -- as the family's standing reached an apex -- the often desperate and duplicitous arrangements the Kennedys made to keep her away from home as she became increasingly intractable in her early twenties. Finally, Larson illuminates Joe's decision to have Rosemary lobotomized at age twenty-three, and the family's complicity in keeping the secret. 'Rosemary' delivers a moving coda: JFK visited Rosemary for the first time while campaigning in the Midwest. She had been living isolated in a Wisconsin institution for nearly twenty years. Only then did the siblings understand what had happened to Rosemary and bring her home for loving family visits. It was a reckoning that inspired them to direct attention to the plight of the disabled, transforming the lives of millions.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-282) and index.
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A home birth
The making of a mother
Slipping behind
Five schools
Brief haven in England
War on the Kennedy home front
November 1941
Rosemary gone
Rosemary made the difference.

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