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Chargement... Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the Worldpar Eileen McNamara
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Inspiring life story Some people will find in this book a disgusting story of wealth and privilege. I find it inspiring. It is the story of a bygone era where political strength was built on service; a time when wealth brought with it public responsibility. The Kennedy family, all of them, were competitors, and Joe and Rose never let them slide. The kids were well trained in history, debate, rhetoric, expository writing, and sports. Once upon a time, these were the tools of statesmen. Family wealth provided tutors and coaches, and the family work and play ethic is to strive to be the best you can be. I was particularly charmed by the intra-family mini-grant program that funded public service projects the college-age grandchildren thought up. Only the good ideas got funded. Be the best you can be was the motto and with it the corollaries: Surround yourself with advisors who are the best you can find, and be sure that within your circle of advisors are people who do not agree with you but are still the best in their field. Contrast that with today when barely-educated, unread people, who happen to be rich or celebrities, surround themselves with people just like themselves forming a homogeneous mass of people who know no history and then pronounce that their truth is the only truth. Eunice's lifetime of hard work for the mentally and physically handicapped, and the birth of the Special Olympics is fully described in the book. Her and Sargent Shriver's work with Peace Corps and related youth jobs programs is less thoroughly presented but still adequate. I received a review copy of "Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World" by Eileen McNamara (Simon & Schuster) through NetGalley.com. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:In this "revelation" of a biography (USA TODAY), a Pulitzer Prizeâ??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 Prizeâ??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 Kenned Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Eunice may have achieved great things, such as helping to bring about the Special Olympics, but she was a deeply flawed individual. They way she went through personal assistants was just staggering. Her inability and her unwillingness to talk about any personal tragedy had a profound effect on her family and the people in her employ. I know that we couldn't have been friends, despite the fact that I admire her greatly for the work she did.
A fascinating and well-balanced account of a previously uncovered, crucial piece of the Kennedy family puzzle. ( )