Rosemary : The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (CD-Audio)

from jstamp26

Rosemary is the heart breaking tale of a learning disabled child born into a family concerned more with public acclaim than their own daughter. Rosemary Kennedy was mentally unable to achieve to the same level as her siblings. Her gifts and talents lay elsewhere. Unfortunately for her, her father...

from debs4jc

What stands out the most to me from this book are: What I learned about Rosemary's birth and how childbirth was handled by the medical profession at the time. Which made me angry as Rosemary's problems could have been avoided. What I learned about the Kennedy family, especially Rosemary's mother....

from tututhefirst

All of us who came of age during the 60's were fascinated by the Kennedy family. Kate Clifford Larson has given us a well-researched, easy to read, (but hard to stomach) story of the sister who was tucked away, and the parents who couldn't cope with, acknowledge, or otherwise engage in imperfecti...

from kaulsu

I suppose Larson could do no better than to write this story in the conditional, but unless it is a "fictional biography," it is best to stick with "just the facts, ma'am." May have's and might have's are very well if used sparingly, but this book was replete with them. The amount of detail about...

from caslater83

This book reveals the story of Rosemary Kennedy. She's a beautiful daughter but has intellectual disabilities that make life difficult for herself as well as her politically ambitious family. There is no room for mental health illness when your affluential family is in the limelight. She has been...