Missing Kennedy : Rosemary Kennedy & the secret bonds of four women
Koehler-Pentacoff, Elizabeth2015
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For thirty-five years - indeed much of her adult life - Sister Paulus Koehler was Rosie Kennedy's caregiver. And a caregiver, tragically, had become necessary after Rosie, a slow learner prone to emotional outbursts, underwent one of America's first lobotomies - an operation her father, Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of America's most famous and celebrated family, was assured would normalise Rosie's life. It did not. Rosie's condition became decidedly worse. After the procedure, Joe Kennedy sent Rosie to rural Wisconsin and Saint Coletta, a Catholic-run home for the mentally disabled. For the next two decades, she never saw her siblings, her parents, or any other relative, the doctors having issued stern instructions that even the occasional family visit would be emotionally disruptive to Rosie. This memoir is based in part on Sister Paulus private notes.
Main title:
Missing Kennedy : Rosemary Kennedy & the secret bonds of four women / Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff.
Author:
Koehler-Pentacoff, Elizabeth, author
Imprint:
Baltimore : Bancroft, 2015.
Collation:
270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781610881746 (hbk)
Dewey class:
362.3092362.3
LC class:
HV3006.A39
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1479266
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