Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
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Eileen McNamara. (2018). Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World. Simon & Schuster.

Eileen McNamara. 2018. Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World. Simon & Schuster.

Eileen McNamara, Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World. Simon & Schuster, 2018.

Eileen McNamara. Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World. Simon & Schuster, 2018.

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   • bioText: Eileen McNamara spent nearly thirty years as a journalist at The Boston Globe, where she won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and was among the first to raise the alarm about clergy sexual abuse. She is now the director of the journalism program at Brandeis University. She is the author of Eunice, Breakdown, and The Parting Glass (with Eric Roth).
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In this "revelation" of a biography (USA TODAY), 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.

Now, in this "fascinating" (the Today show), "nuanced" (The Boston Globe) biography, "ace reporter and artful storyteller" (Pulitzer Prize–winning author Megan Marshall) 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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     December 1, 2017
     

     Pulitzer 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.

     Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     February 19, 2018
     Does Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921–2009), the fifth of Joseph and Rose Kennedy’s nine children, deserve a full-fledged biography? McNamara, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist at the Boston Globe, answers with a resounding yes. Spurred by the virtual loss of her intellectually disabled sister Rosemary, whom Joseph had lobotomized in 1941, and who then “disappeared” from the family, Shriver became a relentless campaigner for those similarly disabled. She helped expand the Special Olympics into an international organization, persuaded her brother John to establish a National Institute on Child Health and Human Development, and funded programs through the Kennedy Foundation. McNamara also portrays a deeply devout Catholic dedicated to “being an instrument of God’s will on earth”; a woman happily married to Sargent Shriver, the founding director of the Peace Corps; and an often engaged (though sometimes absent) mother. While the author clearly admires her subject, this is no hagiography; Shriver can come across as arrogant and entitled, among other flaws. McNamara’s book is an exemplary biography: thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and just the right length. It deserves a wide readership. Agent: Colleen Mohyde, the Doe Coover Agency.

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     Starred review from February 1, 2018
     A convincing argument that Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009), the fifth of nine Kennedy children, changed the world in ways at least as significant as her more-famous relatives.Pulitzer Prize-winning former Boston Globe journalist McNamara (Director, Journalism/Brandeis Univ.; Breakdown: Sex, Suicide, and the Harvard Psychiatrist, 1994, etc.) makes a compelling case that Eunice Kennedy's primary crusade, on behalf of millions of citizens with cognitive disabilities, succeeded greatly as a civil rights movement, altering lives for the better not only for the disabled, but also for their families. Eunice received inspiration for the crusade from her parents' treatment of daughter Rosemary, a cognitively disabled girl--and later, woman--hidden away in asylums, forced to undergo a lobotomy, and lied about to the public to protect the burnished Kennedy family image. The powerful and ruthless Kennedy patriarch, Joseph P., made the major decisions regarding Rosemary, and Joseph's wife, Rose, gave in to her husband. McNamara demonstrates, however, that Eunice, John F., Robert, and all the other Kennedy siblings were complicit in the heartless treatment and public charade. Riddled by guilt and driven to accomplish her reform goals, Eunice influenced JFK to push Congress for legislation to improve the treatment of the cognitively disabled and fund research into causes and cures. That legislation won approval in 1963, shortly before the president's assassination. In 1962, Eunice created Camp Shriver, which eventually became the Special Olympics in 1968. In each chapter, the author amply spotlights the formidable nature of Eunice, who refused to accept no for an answer when she spearheaded a crusade. In fact, McNamara learned, the word most often used to describe Eunice was "formidable."A clearly written biography crammed full of memorable anecdotes about each of the Kennedys through four generations, about Eunice's influential husband, Sargent Shriver, and about dozens more characters from domestic politics, international diplomacy, and high society.

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     Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe journalist McNamara (director, journalism, Brandeis Univ.) presents a biography of Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009), asserting hers as the most significant legacy of the Kennedy family. With the support and resources of the Shriver family and friends, as well as comprehensive research, McNamara crafts a captivating narrative that guides readers through her subject's tragedies and triumphs. Shriver grew up in a family and a society that prioritized male accomplishment, especially living in the shadow of her brothers John and Robert. Her tremendous contributions and invincible spirit are brought to the forefront as the author documents how Shriver continuously faced challenges yet looked forward to how she could next contribute to society, often pushing her way into the most important rooms to make her priorities heard. While there are innumerable books written about the Kennedys, particularly the Kennedy men, McNamara's study provides a much-needed portrait of the Kennedy sister who ruled from the sidelines. VERDICT Highly recommended for Kennedy aficionados, as well as those invested in learning about influential figures in women's history.--Katie McGaha, County of Los Angeles P.L.

     Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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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.

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