Eunice. The Kennedy Who Changed The World

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: First Edition

Description: 383 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. The only exception is a medium sized inscription to the inside page.

Publishers Description: A Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy familys 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 fathers 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. Now, in Eunice , Pulitzer Prize winner Eileen McNamara finally brings Eunice Kennedy Shriver out from her brothers shadow to show an officious, cigar-smoking, indefatigable woman of unladylike determination and deep compassion born of 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 Americas promise of equality.Granted access to never-before-seen private papersfrom the scrapbooks Eunice kept as a schoolgirl in prewar London to her thoughts on motherhood and feminismMcNamara paints a vivid portrait of a woman both ahead of her time and out of step with 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.

ISBN: 9781451642261