Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World

Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World

A Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy familyâ€™s most profound political legacy.

While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter Eunice was tapping her fatherâ€™s fortune and her brothersâ€™ political power to engineer one of the great civil rights movements of our time on behalf of millions of children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Now, in Eunice, Pulitzer Prize winner Eileen McNamara finally brings Eunice Kennedy Shriver out from her brothersâ€™ shadow to show an officious, cigar-smoking, indefatigable woman of unladylike determination and deep compassion born of rage: at the medical establishment that had no answers for her sister Rosemary; at the revered but dismissive father whose vision for his family did not extend beyond his sons; and at the government that failed to deliver on Americaâ€™s promise of equality.

Granted access to never-before-seen private papersâ€”from the scrapbooks Eunice kept as a schoolgirl in prewar London to her thoughts on motherhood and feminismâ€”McNamara paints a vivid portrait of a woman both ahead of her time and out of step with it: the visionary founder of the 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.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781451642261
ReleaseDate 2018-04-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451642261

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781451642261
ReleaseDate	2018-04-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451642261

Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World

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