{"product_id":"9781610881746","title":"The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eRosemary Kennedy, younger sister of President John F. Kennedy, was lobotomized in 1941 at age 23. In 1959, she was put out of public view at a remote facility in rural Wisconsin, where, for more than twenty years, she remained unvisited by family and non-family alike, until 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff (Liz) and her parents were likely the first non-Kennedy family members to visit Rosemary following her lobotomy. Liz was niece to Rosemary’s caretaker, Sister Paulus, a Catholic nun at St. Colleta, and she visited Rosemary on a regular basis for the next thirty-four years. Through their friendship, Liz discovered the person many had forgotten or never known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2015, ten years after Rosemary’s death, Liz came forward with a fascinating book about the hidden daughter of America’s royal Kennedy family. “The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women” is truly unique. It is an eyewitness account of Rosemary’s post-lobotomy years, the first published by a non-family member, and it’s augmented by nearly 100 never-before-seen pictures of Rosemary after she was lobotomized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiz can shed considerable light on so many questions, the four biggest being:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhy did no one visit Rosemary for more than two decades?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhat quality of life did Rosemary lead after her lobotomy?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhat should have been the correct diagnosis of Rosemary’s pre-lobotomy condition?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eAnd in what ways did immense good come from Rosemary’s tragic life? \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis touching story of the intersection of two families will leave you with a unique portrait of the missing, but not forgotten, Kennedy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bancroft Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037561766128,"sku":"9781610881746","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781610881746_p0.jpg?v=1763840135","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781610881746","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}