Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

Major new sources €" 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.