Full name: Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics

Author: Eleanor Clift Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780465002511 9780465012800 046500251X 0465012809

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. Similar books: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs Before I Say Goodbye by Ruth Picardie The Wheel of Life by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Swimming in a Sea of Death by David Rieff The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-williams Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze The Seventeen Traditions by Ralph Nader Extraordinary, Ordinary People by Condoleezza Rice Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein The Amazing Book is Not on Fire by Dan Howell The Adventurous Eaters Club by Misha Collins Code Complete by Steve McConnell Destiny of Souls by Michael Newton The Simple Path to Wealth by J. L. Collins