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A Memoir of Love, Death & Politics
Basic Books
March 2008
On Sale: March 1, 2008
333 pages
ISBN: 046500251X
EAN: 9780465002511
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
One of the most important turning points in our recent
political history, described by a master reporter in an
intensely personal narrative. 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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