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Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics - Couverture souple

Clift, Eleanor

 
9780465012800: Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0465012809 ISBN 13 : 9780465012800
Editeur : Basic Books, 2009

Synopsis

What has become known as the Schiavo affair-the death of a brain-damaged woman in Florida in 2005, and the controversy that surrounded it-was a revelatory moment in American society. For the first time, the nation got a clear view of both the fanaticism gripping the religious right and the political power it could bring to bear even when the vast majority of the country disagreed with it. But it was also a turning point: a moment when America seemed to glimpse a dangerous radicalism, and began to pull back. Eleanor Clift witnessed this event from a unique vantage point. At the same time that Schiavo was dying in her Florida hospice, Clift's husband, Tom Brazaitis, was dying of cancer at home; the two passed away within a day of each other. Two Weeks of Life alternates between these two stories to provide a moving commentary on how we deal, or fail to deal, with dying in modern America.

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À propos de l'auteur

Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek and a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show The McLaughlin Group. She lives in Washington, D.C.

www.EleanorClift.com

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465012809
ISBN 13 
9780465012800
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
351
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Personne responsable
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