There Was Once A Time

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Good/Fair. xiii, [1], 236, [4] pages. Illustrations (32 pages of photographs). Index. DJ has tears, wear, soiling, and creases. In 1959, Steve Clark Rockefeller married Anne-Marie Rasmussen in Søgne, Norway; Anne-Marie was a former employee in the Rockefeller household. The couple had three children before divorcing. Derived from a Kirkus review: Anne-Marie was the Rockefellers' kitchen maid before her Scandinavian good looks caught the eye of Nelson's son, Steven. They married, produced three children, but did not live happily ever after. Anne-Marie, writing four years after the divorce, still seems to have stardust in her eyes. Soon after the fairy tale wedding she began to lapse into depression and melancholia. The family was too much for her; she felt inhibited because Rockefeller family decorum prohibited. She rejected psychiatric help as an insult and was furious and mortified when she discovered that Steven was telling their private life to a shrink. She has only nice things to say about the senior Rockefellers, and she's more impressed than she cares to admit by the family's wealth and importance. This will have a certain voyeuristic interest for those who enjoy spying on the domestic life of the rich and famous.