
Eunice
The Kennedy Who Changed the World
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Narrated by:
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Amanda Carlin
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Eileen McNamara
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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The book is extremely well written. I listened to the audible book at 1.25 speed and found the reader to be excellent.
Outstanding Biography
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Eunice
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I did not know the background of her life all the things she had accomplished. I knew she founded the special Olympian’s and was a champion of the intellectually impaired.
Mrs Shriver gave my father grants for research in the 70s on trying to develop the causes, early identification and possible help for the intellectually impaired. Through the Kennedy Grants and Federal Funding she championed he was able to with a team develop the PKU test. I remember meeting Mrs Shriver at an event First Lady Carter was honoring my father at. Someone had told her I had CP. she said well you look very smart. I told her I was that my father had told me I could do anything anybody else could I might have to get there a different way. She laughed and said that’s just the advice I would have given you. I didn’t know your dad was so smart.
A Woman Unrecognized
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Remarkable woman of her time, but a slow listen.
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Eunice is a powerhouse!
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Annoying Narrator
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