Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver - Stossel, Scott
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Working for four presidents over six decades, R. Sargent Sarge Shriver founded the Peace Corps, launched the War on Poverty, created Head Start and Legal Services for the Poor, started the Special Olympics, and served as ambassador to France. Yet from the moment he married Joseph P. Kennedy s daughter Eunice in 1953, Shriver had to navigate a difficult course between independence and family loyalty that tended to obscure his incredible achievements.
Scott Stossel, through complete access to Shriver and his family, renders the story of his life in cinematic detail. Shriver s myriad…mehr

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Working for four presidents over six decades, R. Sargent Sarge Shriver founded the Peace Corps, launched the War on Poverty, created Head Start and Legal Services for the Poor, started the Special Olympics, and served as ambassador to France. Yet from the moment he married Joseph P. Kennedy s daughter Eunice in 1953, Shriver had to navigate a difficult course between independence and family loyalty that tended to obscure his incredible achievements.

Scott Stossel, through complete access to Shriver and his family, renders the story of his life in cinematic detail. Shriver s myriad historical legacies are testaments to the power of his vision and his ability to inspire others. But it is the colorful personality and indomitable spirit of the man himself traits that allowed him to survive the Depression, WWII, and the Kennedy family that will inspire readers today to expand the horizons of the possible.
Autorenporträt
Scott Stossel is a senior editor at Atlantic Monthly. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and other publications. A frequent commentator on NPR, the BBC, and CNN, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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In this lengthy but lively biography, the journalist Scott Stossel explains in exhaustive detail how Shriver translated vague mandates to found an international service program and wage war on poverty into the creation of some of the most successful social programs of the past half-century. Washington Post

Required reading for anyone interested in the political affairs of 20th-century America and the story of the Kennedy dynasty. Robert Dallek, author of An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

This is a superbly researched, immensely readable political biography. Publishers Weekly

A careful and capable portrait, of much interest to advocates of an activist, beneficent government and students of the Kennedy era alike. Kirkus