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Mark Shriver’s Quest to Understand “A Good Man”

In a new memoir, the statesman Sargent Shriver’s son asks what made his dad such an honorable man. Shriver biographer Scott Stossel answers.

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At Sargent Shriver’s funeral, Bill Clinton brought the house down.

When Clinton got up to deliver his eulogy on a cold Saturday morning in January 2011, all five of Shriver’s children, as well as Vice President Joe Biden, had already given moving remembrances, each more effusive than the last.

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