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Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver
Henry Holt & Company
June 2012
On Sale: June 5, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 0805095306
EAN: 9780805095302
Kindle: B007CLBH0M
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Non-Fiction
In this intimate portrait of an extraordinary father-son
relationship, Mark K. Shriver discovers the moral principles
that guided his legendary father and applies them to his own
life When Sargent "Sarge" Shriver—founder of the Peace Corps and
architect of President Johnson's War on Poverty—died in 2011
after a valiant fight with Alzheimer's, thousands of
tributes poured in from friends and strangers worldwide.
These tributes, which extolled the daily kindness and
humanity of "a good man," moved his son Mark far more than
those who lauded Sarge for his big-stage, headline-making
accomplishments. After a lifetime searching for the path to
his father's success in the public arena, Mark instead turns
to a search for the secret of his father's joy, his devotion
to others, and his sense of purpose. Mark discovers notes
and letters from Sarge; hears personal stories from friends
and family that zero in on the three guiding principles of
Sarge's life—faith, hope, and love—and recounts moments with
Sarge that now take on new value and poignancy. In the
process, Mark discovers much about himself, as a father, as
a husband, and as a social justice advocate. A Good Man is
an inspirational and deeply personal story about a son
discovering the true meaning of his father's legacy.
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