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100 1  Graham, Laurie,|d1947- 
245 14 The importance of being Kennedy :|ba novel /|cLaurie 
       Graham. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bHarper,|c[2008] 
264  4 |c©2008 
300    x, 353 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  Prelude -- 1:  Accidentally, through the keyhole -- 2:  
       Right kind of family -- 3:  Trouble with Blood Fitzwilliam
       -- 4:  Perfect little doll -- 5:  Washer and a dryer and 
       separate beds -- 6:  Two-toilet Irish -- 7:  Three 
       categories of feeble-mindedness -- 8:  Learning the ways 
       of the enemy -- 9:  Another little blessing -- 10:  
       Kennedys everywhere, like a rash -- 11:  Sacred duties of 
       a wife -- 12:  No crybabies, no losers -- 13:  Anniversary
       trip for one -- 14:  Something in the blood -- 15:  Queen 
       of Bronxville, the Queen of England, and Walter 
       Stallybrass -- 16:  Fox supervises the henhouse and Mr 
       Chamberlain goes to Munich -- 17:  Other people's babies -
       - 18:  Our Pope -- 19:  Season at the end of the world -- 
       20:  Keeping going with a cheery smile -- 21:  Future 
       prospects unknown -- 22:  Everything by the book -- 23:  
       Insult of a cake -- 24:  Broken doll -- 25:  Girl on a 
       bicycle -- 26:  Trainee duchess -- 27:  Beginning of the 
       end -- 28:  Real winner, with a bit of grooming -- 29:  
       Kennedy poodle -- 30:  Perpetual light -- 31:  Latest 
       thing for diseases of the mind -- 32:  Official black 
       sheep -- 33:  Irish card -- 34:  Trouble with Blood -- 35:
       Day of tears -- 36:  View from Stalin's sty. 
520    From the Publisher:  When Nora Brennan, fresh to America 
       from Ireland, lands herself a position as nursery maid to 
       a family in Brookline, Massachusetts, she little thinks it
       will place her at the heart of American history. But her 
       job is with the Kennedy family, so how could it not? Nora 
       has charge of all nine Kennedy children, practically from 
       the minute they're born. She sees the boys coached at 
       their father Joe's knee to believe everything they'll ever
       want in life can be bought. She sees the girls trained by 
       Rose Kennedy ("Herself") to be good Catholic wives. With 
       her sharp eye and her quiet common sense, Nora is the 
       perfect candidate to report on an empire in the making. 
       World War II changes everything. When war breaks out, Nora
       and the Kennedys are in London, where Joseph Kennedy is 
       the American ambassador. His reaction is to send the 
       entire household back across the Atlantic to safety, but 
       Nora, surprised by midlife love, chooses to stay in 
       England and do her bit for the war effort. Separated from 
       her Kennedys by an ocean, she nevertheless remains the 
       warm, approachable sun around which the older children 
       orbit: Joe Jr. and Jack, both serving in the US Navy; 
       Rosemary, tragically unable to fit into the Kennedy mold; 
       and Kathleen, known affectionately as "Kick," who throws a
       spanner in the Kennedy works by marrying an English 
       Protestant. Dear Nora has a deliciously inside view of 
       everything that is happening upstairs, and in this 
       fictional diary she tells all with the humor and candor 
       that only a nursemaid dare employ. Witty, irreverent, and 
       a rollicking good read, The Importance of Being Kennedy is
       social satire at its best. 
600 30 Kennedy family|vFiction. 
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