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Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics Hardcover – Bargain Price, March 10, 2008

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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Basic Books (March 10, 2008)
  • ISBN-10: 046500251X
  • ASIN: B001G7RCKC
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsWell done, very insightful
By Joseph P. Naughton on May 20, 2008
Format: Hardcover
The other reviewers will speak better to the great qualities of this book, so I'll echo the best of them - a wonderful read that personalizes a national story with such heartbreaking and informative reporting that truly illuminates the theme that we are a country founded on questions in search of answers. A must read for any student of our political system as well as an enlightening introduction into the culture of hospice care. One of the most important memoirs published this year.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Clear Look at Hard Facts
By Story Circle Book Reviews on April 22, 2008
Format: Hardcover
You probably know Eleanor Clift, or at least know of her. On Sundays, she's the one being yelled at on The McLaughlin Group. Anyone who's seen that show knows she is a tough professional who stands her ground. This book proves it. Even in the hardest of times, Clift is a journalist to the core. She declares in the early pages that this is a love story, and indeed it is, as she records the love she shared with her husband, Tom Brazaitis, as together they faced his spreading cancer and eventual death. But it is more than a memoir.

At the same time she is recording in precise and difficult detail the last two weeks of Tom's life lived peacefully in the living room of their home with the help of hospice, she tells of another story of life and death taking place in Florida--that of Terri Schiavo. Terri Schiavo's story dominated the news as her husband and parents debated the decision of continuing to sustain Terri's life. The governor and courts of Florida became involved, and then the dispute was taken to congress and the president. While Clift was caring for Tom every night, she was involved as a journalist and commentator covering the Schiavo controversy. Her husband, also a journalist, had insisted early on that Clift continue her professional commitments. She did.

Now she has taken these two simultaneous events and combined them into an account that is both an intense personal memoir and a clear analysis of the hard decisions that face families when a loved one's life is ending. She gives her story clearly while she weaves in the Schiavo story in even-handed reporting. "I'm a journalist by training and instinct.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starswell-written and thought-provoking
By Marilyn, teacher and woodworker on February 22, 2016
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If you love the way Eleanor Clift stands up to the conservatives on the MacLaughlin Group, you'll enjoy and sympathize with her touching memoir.
She details the difficult but compassionate decision many people have to make.
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5.0 out of 5 starsEleanor Clift's excellent justaposition on end-of-life experiences
By Andy Orrock VINE VOICE on May 17, 2008
Format: Hardcover
I read excerpts of Eleanor Clift's "Two Weeks of Like" in Newsweek, where she's been a contributor for a number of years. Those selected well-written passages about a very sensitive event - the death from kidney cancer of her husband, Cleveland Plains Dealer Washington correspondent, Tom Brazaitis - made me seek out her book in hardcover. The work as a whole stands up to the strength of the Newsweek excerpts. The operative word in Clift's work is "juxtaposition" - the dignity with which Brazaitis spends his final days vs. how Terry Schiavo spends hers. Clift never comes out and editorializes about Schiavo's treatment, but by contrasting that experience vs. her huband's, she makes her point passively but no less passionately.

At the very least, anyone reading this book will surely react by wanting to have living wills and medical powers of attorney in proper legal order.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWarm, witty, incisive
By Jon Hunt on April 9, 2008
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Eleanor Clift, known to many Americans by her presence and prescient offerings on "The McLaughlin Group", has written a dynamic book paralleling the lives and deaths of two people in the early spring of 2005...her husband, Tom Brazaitis, and Terri Schiavo, whose lingering life and death were watched by millions. In "Two Weeks of Life", Clift recounts the final days of both individuals...one who died a relatively private death...the other whose family endured a demise which was both horrifying and unnecessarily public.

Clift charts broad waters as she seeks and succeeds to give an overview of the times and how her own emotions were caught up with Tom. She tells of how hospice was looked upon in such craven ways as measured by the religious right's stepping over almost every conceivable boundary to "save Terri". Her accounts of Mary Labyak and the endurance tests she had to face as administrative head of Florida Suncoast hospice are chilling. Clift begins with an assertion that "this is not a political book, or at least it shouldn't have been", but knowing enough about the author one can only imagine it doesn't take her long to roll up her sleeves and opine...and she does so with gusto. On the Schiavo side we revisit the Congressional "call to action" with Governor Jeb Bush and President George Bush lamely trying to intervene...certainly a stain on the reputations of the entire Republican leadership. But she notes the Democrats were almost universally nowhere to be found, ending up with the whole operation as a bungled mess, at least politically. But Clift really shines as she relates her visits to Art Buchwald in hospice and the support she received from friends and colleagues on the McLaughlin program.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 starsOne Star

couldn't get into it.

Published 17 months ago by rainmanfun
3.0 out of 5 starsTom Brazaitis -- a Fantastic Spiritual Human Being!

Mixed emotions. Not the Tom Brazaitis I knew so very well in college, decades before the author knew him. Read more

Published 22 months ago by Billie-Boy
4.0 out of 5 starsEnd of Life Issues

I found Eleanor's book to be a very emotional and poignant story. She points out the struggles we have as a society and individually of dealing with end-of-life issues and... Read more

Published on March 20, 2014 by PDM
1.0 out of 5 starsHorrendous

This book was horrendous on many levels. Most shocking was the heartless and callous manner in which the author treated a dying husband. Read more

Published on January 29, 2011 by havana
5.0 out of 5 starsInteresting perspective

Her husband was ill and dying around the same time as the Terry Schiavo media circus. As a grieving wife, she has an interesting perspecitive on the political and social... Read more

Published on November 22, 2008 by A. Murphy
5.0 out of 5 starsEngaging and enlightening

Eleanor Clift weaves personal revelations, interesting sidebars and her keen political insight from beginning to end in this engrossing memoir--it is a valuable tool for anyone... Read more

Published on May 10, 2008 by Bobbie Brinegar
5.0 out of 5 starsTwo Weeks of Life provokes thoughts about how we die.

Eleanor Clift has written a very thought-provoking book about her husband's death from cancer and its contrast with the very public controversy about Terri Schiavo's life and death... Read more

Published on May 10, 2008 by Suzanne H. Rodgers
4.0 out of 5 starsDisappointed

I wanted very much to like this book, and I did--but only somewhat.

The Terri Schiavo material began to seem like filler to me and made me lose interest in the rest of... Read more

Published on April 24, 2008 by Curious Reader
5.0 out of 5 starsTwo Very Different Approaches to End of Life

Eleanor Clift does a great job of combining journalism and memoir. She objectively reports on the events surrounding the bitter dispute over Terry Schiavo's end of life,... Read more

Published on April 11, 2008 by Susan Fall

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