03385cam a2200469 i 4500 552444130 TxAuBib 20151119120000.0 150722s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015028793 9780547250250 cloth 0547250258 cloth 9780547617954 054761795X (OCoLC)898052989 DNLM/DLC eng rda DLC YDX YDXCP BTCTA BDX NLM NZTPP ABG CDX GK8 VP@ DGU NDS OCLCO TxAuBib rda Larson, Kate Clifford. Rosemary : the hidden Kennedy daughter / Kate Clifford Larson. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. 302 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 241- 282) and index. 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. 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. 20151119. Kennedy family. Kennedy, Rosemary 1918-2005. People with mental disabilities United States Biography. Mental retardation facilities patients United States Biography. Developmentally disabled Care United States History 20th century. Frontal lobotomy Patients Biography. Intellectual Disability United States Biography. Family Relations United States Biography. History, 20th Century United States Biography. Institutionalization United States Biography. Mentally Disabled Persons United States Biography. Psychosurgery United States Biography. Biographies. TXGRD