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Honest introspection—Ethel Kennedy hated it.
She once said as much to her daughter Rory, who has called her mother’s life “one of the great untold stories.”
By her own choice, Kennedy—the human rights advocate, dinnertime quizmaster, and acquitted horse thief—spent decades in the background. Though privately said to be warm, with a wryly self-deprecating sense of humor, her public persona usually oscillated between that of the dutiful wife and the strong and silent matriarch. But stoically loyal and only occasionally nettlesome, she was her husband’s secret weapon and, particularly after his assassination, her family’s rock.
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