Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
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In this biography, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family'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 hijacking her father's fortune and her brothers' 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. Her compassion was born of rage: at the medical establishment that 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. Eileen McNamara finally brings Eunice Kennedy Shriver out from her brothers' shadow. 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 an officious, cigar-smoking, indefatigable woman whose impact on American society was longer lasting than that of any of the Kennedy men.
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McNamara, E., & Carlin, A. (2018). Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World. Unabridged. Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)McNamara, Eileen and Amanda, Carlin. 2018. Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World. Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)McNamara, Eileen and Amanda, Carlin, Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)McNamara, Eileen, and Amanda Carlin. Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World. Unabridged. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2018.
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| dateLastUpdated | Apr 30, 2025 06:37:37 PM |
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