Two Weeks of Life : A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics
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
"Booklist"
"Clift's situation with her husband is an intensely personal one,
and readers will feel for the couple as they learn of his diagnosis
and their attempts to find extraordinary treatments to cure the
cancer that originated in his kidney and then spread to his
brain."
"Kirkus Reviews"
"A powerful mix of opinion, reporting and poignant
recollection."
"New York Times Book Review"
"Eleanor Clift's reporting on the Schiavo ordeal is thorough, and
her tender description of her husband's exemplary death
demonstrates how hospice care can help achieve what she calls a
'more peaceful ushering in of the inevitable.'"
Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers columnist
"Eleanor Clift has written a remarkable book about the disgraceful
government intervention in the death of Terri Schiavo and
brilliantly melded in the death of newspaper man Tom Brazaitis, her
husband. She tells the story that gripped the nation and made it
deal with the profound questions of life and death. It's a great
book."
John Danforth, former United States Senator from Missouri
""Two Weeks of Life" helps us think deeply about about the end of
life decisions that the successes of modern medicine have thrust
upon us: how and how long to survive under the most dire
conditions."
Morton M. Kondracke, author of "Saving Milly: Love, Politics and
Parkinson's Disease"
"As someone who has cared for a dying spouse, I found Eleanor
Clift's story of her last days with her beloved Tom moving and
enriching--and her account of poor Terri Schiavo's demise,
perfectly horrifying. This book will enlighten all who read
it--hopefully including our national leaders--about the difference
between 'good death' and 'bad death.'"
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