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Author Larson, Kate Clifford, author.

Title Rosemary : the hidden Kennedy daughter / Kate Clifford Larson.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 KENNEDY    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY KENNEDY ROSEMARY    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY KENNEDY ROSEMARY    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. KENNEDY, R.    Storage
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  B KENNEDY    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B KENNEDY    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO KENNEDY    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY KENNEDY    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY KENNEDY, ROSEMARY    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B KENNEDY    Check Shelf

Description 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-282) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation.
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.
Subject Kennedy, Rosemary, 1918-2005.
Intellectual disability.
People with mental disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
Kennedy, Rosemary, 1918-2005.
Kennedy family.
Intellectual Disability -- United States -- Biography.
Family Relations -- United States -- Biography.
History, 20th Century -- United States -- Biography.
Institutionalization -- United States -- Biography.
Persons with Mental Disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
Psychosurgery -- United States -- Biography.
Frontal lobotomy -- Case studies.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Learning Disabilities.
Kennedy, Rosemary, 1918-2005. (OCoLC)fst01926528
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
ISBN 9780547250250 (hardcover)
0547250258 (hardcover)
9780547617954
054761795X
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