THE MISSING KENNEDY: ROSEMARY KENNEDY AND THE SECRET BONDS OF FOUR WOMEN
Book ID/图书代码： 01340015B83714
English Summary/英文概要： Rosemary (Rosie) Kennedy was born in 1918, the first daughter of a wealthy Bostonian couple who later would become known as the patriarch and matriarch of America’s most famous and celebrated family. Elizabeth Koehler was born in 1957, the first and only child of a struggling Wisconsin farm family.
What, besides their religion, did these two very different Catholic women have in common?
One person: Stella Koehler, a charismatic woman of the cloth who became Sister Paulus Koehler after taking her vows with the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi.
Sister Paulus was Elizabeth’s Wisconsin aunt. For thirty-five years indeed much of her adult life Sister Paulus 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 Joseph Kennedy was assured would normalize 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.
Following Joseph Kennedy’s stroke in 1961, the Kennedy family, led by mother Rose and sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, resumed face to face contact with Rosie.
It was also about then that a young Elizabeth Koehler began paying visits to Rosie.
In this insightful and poignant memoir, based in part on Sister Paulus’ private notes and augmented by over one-hundred never-before-seen photos, Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff recalls the many happy and memorable times spent with the missing Kennedy.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 罗斯玛丽（罗斯）•肯尼迪于1918年出生于一个富裕的家庭，是家里的大女儿，其父母后来成为了美国最有名的豪门家族的族长。伊丽莎白•凯勒于1957年出生于威斯康星州一个家境困难的农民家庭，是家里第一个、也是唯一的孩子。
除了宗教信仰，是什么另这两个截然不同的天主教妇女产生了交集？
经过宣誓， 颇具魅力的Stella Koehler成为了Paulus Koehler修女。Paulus修女是伊丽莎白的阿姨。35年来，Paulus修女的大部分时间都在照顾罗斯•肯尼迪。
可怜的罗斯患有先天精神疾病，学习能力低下，必需要有一名看护者陪伴，后罗斯接受了美国第一例前脑叶白质切除术。Joseph Kennedy一度认为该手术能让罗斯过上正常人的生活。不幸的是，手术失败了。罗斯的情况每况愈下。
之后，Joe Kennedy将罗斯送往威斯康星州乡下一所收容精神病患者的教会看护所。在之后的20年里，罗斯再也没有见过她的家人，医生甚至下了指令，即便是偶尔的家人探访也会令罗斯情绪崩溃。
1961年，Joseph Kennedy中风后，有罗斯母亲为首的肯尼迪家族恢复了与罗斯的面对面接触。也就是从那时起，一位年轻的名叫伊丽莎白的女性开始定期探访罗斯。
这本回忆录部分取材于Paulus修女的私人笔记，加上百余张之前从未公开的照片，伊丽莎白回忆了许多与失踪的肯尼迪一起度过的美好、难忘的时光。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：本书揭露了肯尼迪传奇里不为人知的一个篇章……同时谈到了肯尼迪的智障与残奥会成立的关系……书中叙述了肯尼迪家族中几乎被遗忘的一位成员的趣闻轶事。——Kirkus评论
Reveals an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga . . . Also shows how knowledge of Rosie’s disability led to the founding of the Special Olympics by Eunice Kennedy . . . Provides a few interesting glimpses into one member of the Kennedy clan who was almost lost to her family. --Kirkus Reviews
About the Author/作者介绍： Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff出生、成长于威斯康星州乡下，后离开中西部赴加利福尼亚读大学。她攥写了七部儿童书籍和两部成人书籍，此外，还为各类杂志和报纸攥写过许多文章。
目前，Elizabeth与丈夫居住在加利福尼亚北部。
Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff was born and grew up in rural Wisconsin, but left the Midwest for college in California. She has written seven books for children and two for adults, including The ABCs of Writing for Children, a Writer’s Digest Book Club Selection. She has also written hundreds of articles for magazines and newspapers such as Columbia, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Parents Magazine.
She is married and lives with her husband in northern California.
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