Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world / Eileen McNamara.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2018Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xxiv, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, genealogical table ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781451642261; 1451642261Subject(s): 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 -- Brothers and sisters -- BiographyGenre/Form: Biographies. DDC classification: 973.922092 | B LOC classification: E843.S56 | M35 2018| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | B EUNI (Browse shelf) | Available | 37650 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-353) and index.
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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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