05309cam a22006378i 4500 6494531 MeVbMML 20250626154033.0 171002s2018 nyuacfj b 001 0beng 2017046517 9781451642261 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) 1451642261 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) (OCoLC)ocn989963797 (OCoLC)989963797 6493094 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO GK8 TOH SSH OCLCQ CHY PCX IK2 CZA OQX JOY BUR AJM pcc n-us--- E843.S56 M35 2018 973.922092 B 23 E843.S56 M35 2018 973.922 McNamara McNamara, Eileen, author. 5761 Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world / Eileen McNamara. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2018. xxiv, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, genealogical table ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. Shriver, Eunice Kennedy. 5762 Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 Family. 5763 Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969 Family. 5764 Kennedy family. 5765 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.) 5766 Special Olympics, Inc. 5767 Women philanthropists United States Biography. 5768 Philanthropists United States Biography. 5769 Presidents United States Brothers and sisters Biography. 5770 Biographies. lcgft 5771 New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf ddc BOOK BPL BIOX 26 199228-1 BIOG E843.S56 M35 2018 Boston Library 39999094014105 9 6 2 2 5 28.00 Item generated Mar 28 2018 11:31AM BPL BIOX 26 199228-1 BIOG E843.S56 M35 2018 Boston Library 39999094014113 9 6 2 2 5 28.00 Item generated Mar 28 2018 11:31AM BPL BIOX 26 199228-1 BIOG E843.S56 M35 2018 Boston Library 39999094014121 9 6 2 2 5 28.00 Item generated Mar 28 2018 11:31AM BPL BIOX 26 199228-1 BIOG E843.S56 M35 2018 Boston Library 39999094014139 9 6 2 2 5 28.00 Item generated Mar 28 2018 11:31AM 25569 25569 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ B 2018-05-11 28.00 3 0 B EUNI 37650 2019-05-08 2019-05-08 2018-05-11 BOOK