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Eileen McNamara

Biography

Eileen McNamara

Eileen McNamara spent nearly 30 years as a journalist at The Boston Globe, where she won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. She now teaches journalism at Brandeis University. She is the author of EUNICE.

Eileen McNamara

Books by Eileen McNamara

Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
by Eileen McNamara - Biography, Nonfiction

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 EUNICE, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eileen McNamara finally brings Eunice Kennedy Shriver out from her brothers’ shadow.