Rosemary the hidden Kennedy daughter

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Summary

Based on correspondence, entries in Rose Kennedy's diaries, and family interviews, describes the plight of a woman who was intellectually disabled and kept hidden by her family after she received a lobotomy at age twenty-three.

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.

Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "Born in September 1918, Rose and Joe Kennedy's daughter Rosemary was deemed slow and was thus a disappointment to her parents as well as a mystery. Words, from idiots to morons, for intellectually disabled humans as well as treatments were often lacking, disputed, and not much help, even for those with ample money, such as the Kennedys. By 16, in her third special school in five years, Rosemary could write home (charming, simplistic letters, many reproduced here), but despite the individualized help she was given, as Larson notes, the truth was she couldn't really do any better. Larson's well-researched and fascinating history includes Kennedy anecdotes as well as major developments in American life (e.g., Spanish influenza, the Great Depression, the beginning of the divide between the haves and the have-nots) in a depiction of one family's decisions regarding a special daughter, whose ill-advised lobotomy rendered her nearly broken, physically and mentally. Heartbreaking and illuminating, this will serve not only Kennedy fans but also those curious about the history of disabilities in the U.S.--Kinney, Eloise Copyright 2015 Booklist"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

Additional Information

Subjects	Kennedy, Rosemary, 1918-2005 Kennedy family Intellectual disability United States Biography Families United States Biography Inmates of institutions United States Biography People with mental disabilities United States Biography Psychosurgery United States Biography Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction History Electronic books. NonFiction. Historical. 1918-2005.
Publisher	Boston :HarperCollins2015 2015
Contributors	OverDrive, Inc.
Language	English
System Details	Mode of access: World Wide Web. Format: Adobe EPUB eBook Format: Kindle Book Format: OverDrive Read Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle
Description	1 online resource
ISBN	9780547617954 9780547617954
Other	Classic View