Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver
By The ArchivesSarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver
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Originally broadcast May 24, 2004Scott Stossel—Senior Editor, Atlantic Monthly
Richard Steele—Special Contributor
On the Peace Corps’s 44th anniversary, we revisit a conversation about the organization’s first director, Sargent Shriver. As author Scott Stossel reminds us, Shriver also headed the Chicago board of education and had national political aspirations.
Book Information
Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver by Scott Stossel (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004)