Rose Kennedy and Her Family presents a full biography as well as an insider's account of one of America's most admired and paradoxical families and their matriarch. During her more than one hundred years, Rose Kennedy witnessed more triumph and tragedy, celebration and heartbreak than seems humanly endurable. Barbara Gibson was Rose Kennedy's personal secretary from the late 1960s until the time of her debilitating stroke.

As "lady-in-waiting" she knew Rose as few other people did and witnessed the Kennedy clan's behavior up close.