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My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

My Age of Anxiety by Scott Stossel

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Publishers Weekly "A superbly researched, immensely readable political biography."

The Washington Post "In this lively biography, the journalist Scott Stossel explains 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."

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

BOOK DESCRIPTION:

As founder of the Peace Corps, Head Start, the Special Olympics (with wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver), and other organizations, Sargent Shriver was a key social and political figure whose influence continues to the present day. This authorized biography, exhaustively researched and finely rendered by Scott Stossel (deputy editor of The Atlantic), reads like an epic novel, with "Sarge" marching through the historical events of the last century--the Great Depression, World War II, JFK’s assassination, the Cold War, and many more. Sarge gives us a complete account of Shriver's life, as well as a thoughtful commentary on the Kennedy family, the Peace Corps, and United States and world history. It is a riveting and comprehensive reconstruction of a life that exemplifies what it means to be a true American.