| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xxiv, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-353) and index. |
| Contents |
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 |
Examines the life of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, covering her Stanford education, her inspirational relationship with her sister Rosemary, her advocacy on behalf of disabled citizens, and her role as founder of the Special Olympics. |
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"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 Jack, 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."--Jacket. |
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Shriver, Eunice Kennedy.
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Family.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)
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Special Olympics, Inc.
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Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969 -- Family.
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Kennedy family.
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Women philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
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Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
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Presidents -- United States -- Siblings -- Biography.
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Activists.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: McNamara, Eileen. Eunice. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018 9781451642278 (DLC) 2017047535 |
| ISBN |
9781451642261 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1451642261 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781451642278 (electronic book) |
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