Eileen McNamara spent nearly thirty years as a journalist at The Boston Globe, where she won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. She now teaches journalism at Brandeis University. She is the author of Eunice.
Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
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- ISBN-13: 9781451642261
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication date: 04/03/2018
- Pages: 416
- Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
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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 tapping 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. 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 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 America’s promise of equality.
Granted access to never-before-seen private papers—from the scrapbooks Eunice kept as a schoolgirl in prewar London to her thoughts on motherhood and feminism—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.
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12/01/2017Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist McNamara doesn't just tell the story of Eunice Kennedy, who used father Joe's money, the political power of brothers John and Robert, and her own Stanford-refined smarts and audacity to advance the well-being of children and adults with intellectual disabilities. McNamara argues that this was the Kennedy who left the most important legacy of all.