MixedThe New York Times Book Review...she’s the only one left. That’s reason enough to dip into this graceful if gossamer book ... Jean is too proper, of course, to address her parents’ marriage in any but the most reverent terms ... Papa Kennedy decided that Rosemary should have a new and promising but radical treatment: a frontal lobotomy. Jean omits any mention of it in her narrative ... We can rue how much goes unsaid here, even about those Hyannis Port summers of the l930s and l940s. Or we can concede that the last Kennedy of her generation has the right to tell the story she wishes, and let it go at that. Slim as this volume is, it still makes for engaging reading.
