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Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics
Author(s): Eleanor Clift (Author)
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publication Date: 11 Mar. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 046500251X
- ISBN-13: 9780465002511
Book Description
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, Clifts 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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About the Author
Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show “The McLaughlin Group,” and a political analyst for the Fox News Network. Clift and her late husband, Tom Brazaitis, co-authored two books: War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics, and Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling. Clift’s latest book is Founding Sisters. She lives in Washington, D.C.
