Life for Two A Memoir ／Sharon Rockefeller （Penguin Publishing Group）

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An awe-inspiring account of love and grief, and extraordinary political and philanthropic power, Sharon Percy Rockefeller tells her story for the first time Born in 1944 into a rising midwestern family, Sharon Percy Rockefeller and her twin sister, Valerie, came of age at the crossroads of politics, wealth, media, and culture, in a world shaped by postwar American optimism. Their father, Charles Percy, rose from Depression-era hardship to become a United States senator and a serious presidential contender. A Christian Scientist, he took seriously the obligations to public service that his faith espoused, and he passed those values on to his children: Percys don’t watch, they do. Sharon and Valerie took note; they excelled in academics and went their separate ways to Stanford and Cornell. After college, the sisters agreed to return to Chicago to campaign for their father, but that summer, in 1966, twenty-one-year-old Valerie was brutally murdered in their family home. The crime, which r

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