Mark Shriver Remembers His Father

A book presentation on A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver

Presented by Crossroads Cultural Center

The difference between greatness and goodness is what Mark Shriver reflects upon in this moving memoir of his father. The fourth child of Eunice Kennedy and Sargent Shriver, Mark learned, along with his siblings, that they were not to be mere spectators of history, but protagonists of it. "I had the fixation that comes from being a Kennedy," he writes, "to be a great man on the big stage." Sargent Shriver was certainly a great man -- he founded the Peace Corps on behalf of his brother-in-law John F. Kennedy, he was the architect of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, he served as Ambassador to France, and he helped to found the Special Olympics -- but as we discover in anecdote after anecdote, he was also a very good man, and this takes precedence over all.

The event is open to the public and free of charge.

About this Event

Date: 9, October, 2014
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Silver Spring Civic Center
Fenton Room
1 Veterans Pl.
Silver Spring, MD
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About the Speaker

Mark K. Shriver
Senior Vice President of U.S. Programs at Save the Children in Washington, D.C.

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