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0402124618. Publisher: Cowles Book CompanyDate of Publication: 1970Binding: hardcoverEdition: Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacketDescription: 218 pages; 8.30 X 5.80 X 1 inches.
I "discovered" Pearl Buck via a PHD thesis I read on the Subnormal Childrens Welfare Association. Her book of 1950 Children That Never Grow provided a philosophical underpinning for the founding parents of SCWA. It was a time when she was well known [unlike now] and was a "coming out" of a famous person who was a parent of a child with an intellectual disability. Possibly the equivalent of a Gay "coming out" a decade or so ago.
This book on the Kennedy Women [one of whom, Rosemary, has an intellectual disability, perhaps at the time included that person in the story of one of the most famous families on earth [more deserving of fame than today's celebrities perhaps.]
It was written three years before Buck's death and twent years after her coming out book. Published in 1970.
For a book by a woman in 1970, it is extremely 1950ish.
But also I wonder if there wasn't an agenda to cleanse her own soul in terms of her placing her own daughter in an institution then afterwards being a public champion for Chinese orphans of Americans who had been rejected by both countries. In this book Buck subtly connects herself to Rose Kennedy who refused to place her daughter Rosemary into an institution until she was aged 21. Then the Buck argumentfirst put in her own account of 1950 of "they are better off with their own kind" is repeated.
Regardless of its often rambling and shallow almost fairy taleish style it does make a lot of interesting observations about democracy and the nature of power driven by resentment [in the Kennedy's case being of the Catholic underclass in American society].
Rosemary's story however is told as an enobling aspect of her mother and one of her sisters [Eunice] life story.
At least Rosemary is named unlike in her 1950 book her daughter [Carol] is never named.
