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Sarge : the life and times of Sargent Shriver /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stossel, Scott
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books, [2004]
Subjects:
Shriver, Sargent, > 1915-2011.
Kennedy family.
Democratic Party (U.S.) > Biography.
Politicians > United States > Biography.
Businessmen > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
Lawyers > United States > Biography.
Ambassadors > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
United States > Politics and government > 1989-
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Youth (1915-1945)
  • 1. States rights, religious freedom, and local self-government
  • 2. The education of a leader
  • 3. A Yale man
  • 4. War
  • Part II: The Chicago years (1945-1960)
  • 5. Joseph P. Kennedy
  • 6. Eunice
  • 7. The long courtship
  • 8. Marriage
  • 9. Religion and civil rights
  • 10. Chicago politics
  • 11. Dawn of the new frontier
  • 12. The talent hunt
  • Part III: The peace corps (1961-1963)
  • 13. The towering task
  • 14. Shriver's Socratic seminar
  • 15. The battle for independence
  • 16. "The trip"
  • 17. Storming Capitol Hill
  • 18. Shriverizing
  • 19. Timberlawn
  • 20. Bigger, better, faster
  • 21. Psychiatrists and astrologers
  • 22. Growing pains
  • 23. Tragedy
  • Part IV: The war on poverty (1964-1968)
  • 24. Shriver for vice president
  • 25. Origins of the war on poverty
  • 26. "Mr. Poverty"
  • 27. A beautiful hysteria
  • 28. Mobilizing for war
  • 29. Wooing congress
  • 30. The law of the jungle
  • 31. "Political pornography"
  • 32. Head start
  • 33. A revolution in poverty law
  • 34. "Double commander-in-chief"
  • 35. The OEO in trouble
  • 36. King of the hill
  • 37. What next?
  • Part V: France (1968-1970)
  • 38. Springtime in Paris
  • 39. "Sarjean Shreevair"
  • 40. The 1968 election
  • 41. Nixon in Paris
  • 42. Au Revoir
  • Part VI: Democratic politics (1970-1976)
  • 43. The politics of life
  • 44. International men of mystery
  • 45. Shriver for vice president
  • 46. Shriver for president
  • Part VII: Private life, public service (1976-2003)
  • 47. Nuclear politics
  • 48. Special Olympics, a family affair
  • 49. Faith and hope.