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McNamara, Eileen.
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Shriver, Eunice Kennedy.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Family.
Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969 -- Family.
Kennedy family.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)
Special Olympics, Inc.
Women philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
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Presidents -- United States -- Siblings -- Biography.
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McNamara, Eileen.
Shriver, Eunice Kennedy.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Family.
Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969 -- Family.
Kennedy family.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)
Special Olympics, Inc.
Women philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- Siblings -- Biography.
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Eunice
: the
Kennedy
who changed the world / Eileen McNamara.
by
McNamara, Eileen.
Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Call #:
973.922092 S561m
Subjects
Shriver
,
Eunice
Kennedy
.
Kennedy
, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Family.
Kennedy
, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969 -- Family.
Kennedy
family.
Eunice
Kennedy
Shriver
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)
Special Olympics, Inc.
Women philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- Siblings -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781451642261 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description:
xxiv, 383 p. : ill. (some color), portraits, genealogical table ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"April 2018"--T. p. verso
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-353) and index
Contents:
Introduction -- Prologue -- Part one. In her parents' image. The middle child ; London ; From the Sacred Heart to Stanford University ; Dollar-a-year girl -- Part two. In her brothers' shadows. Juvenile delinquency ; Women in prison ; Chicago ; Consultant to the president -- Part three. In her own right. From Camp
Shriver
to Special Olympics ; An American in Paris ; Maternal feminism ; Protecting the present, seeding the future -- Epilogue
Summary:
"While Joe
Kennedy
was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter,
Eunice
was hijacking her father's fortune and her brothers' political power to engineer one of the great civil rights movements of our time.
Eunice
Kennedy
Shriver
is the reason we no longer lock away children and adults with intellectual disabilities--that we educate them, employ them, and help them thrive. Her compassion was born of rage: at the medical establishment that had had no answers for her sister Rosemary, at her revered but dismissive father, whose vision for his family did not extend beyond his sons, and at a government that failed to deliver on America's promise of equality. In [this book], Pulitzer Prize-winner Eileen McNamara brings
Eunice
Kennedy
Shriver
out from her brothers' shadows to reveal an officious, cigar-smoking, fast-driving, indefatigable woman who was a shrewd player in the careers of lack, Bobby, and Ted, a complicated wife to Sargent, an oft-neglected daughter of Rose, and a fiercely devoted but emotionally aloof mother to her five children. Granted access to never-before-seen private papers, including the scrapbooks
Eunice
kept as a schoolgirl in prewar London, McNamara paints an extraordinary portrait of a woman both ahead of her time and out of step with it: the visionary founder of Special Olympics, a devout Catholic in a secular age, and a formidable woman whose impact on American society was longer-lasting than that of any of the
Kennedy
men."--Dust jacket
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