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Rosemary’s life has always been a small side story to the larger drama of the Kennedy family in the scores of books written about them. This is the first full length biography that puts Rosemary – an intellectually disabled child in a household of overachievers - at the core of that incredible family story.
Oct 6, 2015 · HarperCollins, Oct 6, 2015 - Biography & Autobiography - 336 pages. 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. " [Larson] succeeds in providing a well-rounded portrait of a woman who, until now ...
Aug 27, 2015 · This book seemed to be the flip side of the more recent publication, which was a biography of the life of Rosemary Kennedy, which to me, demonized the wealthy Kennedy family. One major positive of this memoir is that it described Rosemary's mental retardation, mental illness and lobotomy, within the context of the historical period.
“Ms. Koehler-Pentacoff’s Keynote address at the 2015 Southeast WI Festival of Books was a crowd-drawing highlight of our event. Her presentation of THE MISSING KENNEDY gave depth and insight into the very private world of the Kennedys, while sharing Rosemary’s story with compassion, dignity and love.
Jul 7, 2023 · A new book is shining a light on one of the more hidden members of America’s most iconic political dynasty: Rosemary Kennedy, the younger sister of John F. Kennedy who underwent a disastrous ...
Oct 7, 2015 · Rosemary Kennedy, younger sister of President John F. Kennedy, was lobotomized in 1941 at age 23. In 1959, she was put out of public view at a remote facility in rural Wisconsin, where, for more than twenty years, she remained unvisited by family and non-family alike, until 1962.
- Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff
Rosemary read few books but could read Winnie-the-Pooh. Diaries written by her in the late 1930s, and published in the 1980s, reveal a young woman whose life was filled with outings to the opera, tea dances, dress fittings, and other social interests. Kennedy accompanied her family to the coronation of Pope Pius XII in Rome in
