When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine

When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
ISBN-10
054763014X
ISBN-13
9780547630144
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
235
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Monica Wood

Description

An account of the 1963 death of the author's father describes how her mother, three sisters, and she were financially dependent on her father's wages and how their loss and Catholic faith resonated the experiences of the nation.

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