Times to Remember [Hardcover]

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1974

A fascinating chronicle of eight decades rich in history, drama, and courage, the new edition of Rose Kennedy's bestselling memoir is introduced by a moving tribute from her children and features family letters, memorabilia, and personal photographs. Reissue.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

First published in 1974 and out of print for many years, matriarch Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's autobiography is by turns conventional, tedious, intimately revealing, evasive, sugar-coated, tough-minded and touching. Now 104, she began her political life at the age of five, when her father, John Francis Fitzgerald, was elected to Congress; he later became mayor of Boston. In their warm foreword to this reissue, Rose's children?Edward Kennedy, Eunice Shriver, Patricia Lawford, Jean Smith?call her "the best politician in our family," and indeed, she relives her prominent role in accompanying her husband, Joseph Kennedy, FDR's ambassador to the Court of St. James, to Great Britain as war clouds gathered over Europe, and her vigorous campaigning for her sons, John and Bobby, in 1960 and 1968. Strewn with quotes from letters, diaries and recollections by family members and Kennedy watchers, this conversational, unpretentious memoir is particularly interesting when Rose is discussing JFK's illnesses and injuries, raising her nine children, her mentally retarded daughter, Rosemary, and the deep religious faith that sustained her through personal tragedies. Photos.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

"A serious, positive account of what is by any standard an awesome life," said LJ's reviewer of Kennedy's autobiography (LJ 5/15/74). This 20th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Kennedy's children. "Those who are drawn to it will be more than satisfied."
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 536 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385016255
• ISBN-13: 978-0385016254
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.7 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,520,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WELL WORTH REMEMBERING, September 23, 2000

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This review is from: Times to Remember (Hardcover)

I received this book as a present and it remains a treasured gift to this day. Rose Kennedy was clearly a very intelligent and literate woman from all accounts and this shows in her memoir.

My favorite parts of this book are the parts outlining the growth and development of Robert Kennedy. We watch him remain in character. His progress is tracked from the time he doggedly tried to teach himself to swim at age 4 to some 35 years later, in 1965 when the then Senator, an acrophobe, climbed a previously unscaled mountain in Canada out of love for his slain brother. Robert Kennedy was a stubborn, determined hardworking person and these traits showed up early in his life.

From all accounts, Rose and Robert Kennedy were close. In looking at pictures of the mother and the son the physical resemblance is quite strong. Robert Kennedy was the only one of the sons to have the "Fitzgerald" face. Like his maternal grandfather who, in Doris Kearns Goodwin's book, "the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys," Mayor John Fitzgerald took up a rigorous physical regimen to develop himself into a runner and augment his physical strength. We see this same characteristic in Robert Kennedy, the boy who tried to teach himself to swim, the undergrad who was determined to show his mettle on the football field and the man who would, in 1965 climb that mountain. Both mother and son shared a deep devotion to Catholicism and both were consistently described as serious and committed to following their social consciences.

This book is such a treasure chest of memories and is well worth reading time and again.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a book that you can lose yourself in., November 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Times to Remember (Hardcover)

This book shows that a family can stand together for century's. I enjoyed the history. I feel the infomation that I got in this book was the truth and not just someone telling it someway. It was real! Best book I'v read in long time. Your'v got to read it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars strong and purposeful life, July 16, 2006

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Wendy "Librarylover" (europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Times to Remember (Hardcover)

I loved this book, not just for the history and intimate details she reveals about the Kennedys but also I found her personally fascinating as she is one of those people who is truly a strong and unique person and is able to successfully convey this in her book, who has clear and forceful ideas about life and I found it very interesting to read.

Most people, even famous or successful, are not so very clear on their views in life. I didn't always agree on everything she said, somethings were almost laughable, her comments on being thin or attractive were a little too much nevertheless I think it's a great book.

I knew nothing about her and thought she was one of those woman who thru a fluke in fate, by marrying a man who was ultimately successful, and had successful childen, that she too came into the limelight, but I see now that she seems to be really the mastermind behind the kennnedy children and it's almost fascinating social experiment she practises on her children.