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THE NINE OF US. Copyright © 2016 by Jean Kennedy Smith. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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“You’re The Top” (from Anything Goes) Words and Music by Cole Porter. Copyright © 1934 (Renewed) WB Music Corp. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission of Alfred Music.
Stanzas from “The Indispensable Man” © Saxon White Kessinger, reprinted with permission of her family.
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EPub Edition October 2016 ISBN 9780062444240
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* In 1935, the Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz performed a new procedure called a leucotomy, which was intended to treat mental illness. The American psychiatrist and physician Walter J. Freeman, subsequently adapted the procedure, renaming it the lobotomy.
Freeman’s partner, neurosurgeon James Watts, performed the first lobotomy in 1936. The pair reported significant improvement in patients’ conditions and dispositions, leading medical experts across the nation to laud it as a breakthrough procedure. Moniz would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine because of his work. Time would tell, however, that the lobotomy was not the breakthrough it was believed to be. We later learned of other patients who had suffered the same terrible fate as Rosemary, including Rose Williams, the sister of the playwright Tennessee Williams.
* Teddy was first elected in 1964 and reelected seven more times. He was the fourth-longest serving senator in U.S. history at the time that he died in 2009.