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The theft of memory : losing my father, one day at a time, Jonathan Kozol
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- Summary
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- "National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father's life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer's disease, to explain the causes of his sickness and then to narrate, step-by-step, his slow descent into dementia. Dr. Harry Kozol was born in Boston in 1906. Classically trained at Harvard and Johns Hopkins, he was an unusually intuitive clinician with a special gift for diagnosing interwoven elements of neurological and psychiatric illnesses in highly complicated and creative people. "One of the most intense relationships of his career," his son recalls, "was with Eugene O'Neill, who moved to Boston in the last years of his life so my father could examine him and talk with him almost every day." At a later stage in his career, he evaluated criminal defendants including Patricia Hearst and the Boston Strangler, Albert H. DeSalvo, who described to him in detail what was going through his mind while he was killing thirteen women. But The Theft of Memory is not primarily about a doctor's public life. The heart of the book lies in the bond between a father and his son and the ways that bond intensified even as Harry's verbal skills and cogency progressively abandoned him. "Somehow," the author says, "all those hours that we spent trying to fathom something that he wanted to express, or summon up a vivid piece of seemingly lost memory that still brought a smile to his eyes, left me with a deeper sense of intimate connection with my father than I'd ever felt before." Lyrical and stirring, The Theft of Memory is at once a tender tribute to a father from his son and a richly colored portrait of a devoted doctor who lived more than a century"--
- "House author Jonathan Kozol's deeply personal biography of his father, a brilliant neurologist who suffered from Alzheimer's.There are few writers of conscience who write as beautifully as Jonathan Kozol.Departing from the South Bronx and turning his sensitive eye to his own life and legacy, The Theft of Memory is Kozol's most personal book to date, as it explores the life of his father, Harry. Dr. Harry L. Kozol was a nationally-renowned neurologist whose work helped establish the emerging fields of forensic psychiatry and neuropsychiatry. He was a remarkable clinician with unusual capacity to diagnose and identify neurological and psychotic illnesses in highly complicated and sophisticated people, including well-known artists, writers, and intellectuals. Notably, in Eugene O'Neill's last years, the playwright moved to Boston so that he could live close to Kozol's father's office. In addition to his successful private practice in Boston, Kozol operated in a grim arena marked by extreme violence. But while his role as a forensic expert placed him in the public eye for high-profile criminal defendants such as Albert DeSalvo (the Boston Strangler) and Patty Hearst, he was--as his son articulates--"a healer of tormented people, not their judge, not their interrogator." With the same lyricism and clarity that have defined Kozol's acclaimed work on education for decades,The Theft of Memory intimately describes Harry's vibrant life, the challenges following his self-diagnosis of Alzheimer's, and the evolution of their relationship throughout. This unique biography will have a long shelf life as a moving portrait of an extraordinary man, a window into the heart of one of our nation's foremost education activists, and a frank examination of how we come to terms with caregiving"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- xi, 302 pages
- Contents
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- 1. The Onset of an Illness
- 2. End of Days
- 3. A Fascination with Predicament
- 4. "Can You Take Me Home with You?"
- 5. Clinical Considerations: "All Tests Negative"
- 6. A Sentimental Longing
- 7. Coming Home
- 8. A Sense of Exploration
- 9. My Father and Mother: Together and Apart
- 10. My Mother Gives Me My Instructions
- 11. The Pursuit of Recollection
- 12. The Future in Our Memories
- Epilogue: 2015
- Isbn
- 9780804140973
- Label
- The theft of memory : losing my father, one day at a time
- Title
- The theft of memory
- Title remainder
- losing my father, one day at a time
- Statement of responsibility
- Jonathan Kozol
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father's life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer's disease, to explain the causes of his sickness and then to narrate, step-by-step, his slow descent into dementia. Dr. Harry Kozol was born in Boston in 1906. Classically trained at Harvard and Johns Hopkins, he was an unusually intuitive clinician with a special gift for diagnosing interwoven elements of neurological and psychiatric illnesses in highly complicated and creative people. "One of the most intense relationships of his career," his son recalls, "was with Eugene O'Neill, who moved to Boston in the last years of his life so my father could examine him and talk with him almost every day." At a later stage in his career, he evaluated criminal defendants including Patricia Hearst and the Boston Strangler, Albert H. DeSalvo, who described to him in detail what was going through his mind while he was killing thirteen women. But The Theft of Memory is not primarily about a doctor's public life. The heart of the book lies in the bond between a father and his son and the ways that bond intensified even as Harry's verbal skills and cogency progressively abandoned him. "Somehow," the author says, "all those hours that we spent trying to fathom something that he wanted to express, or summon up a vivid piece of seemingly lost memory that still brought a smile to his eyes, left me with a deeper sense of intimate connection with my father than I'd ever felt before." Lyrical and stirring, The Theft of Memory is at once a tender tribute to a father from his son and a richly colored portrait of a devoted doctor who lived more than a century"--
- "House author Jonathan Kozol's deeply personal biography of his father, a brilliant neurologist who suffered from Alzheimer's.There are few writers of conscience who write as beautifully as Jonathan Kozol.Departing from the South Bronx and turning his sensitive eye to his own life and legacy, The Theft of Memory is Kozol's most personal book to date, as it explores the life of his father, Harry. Dr. Harry L. Kozol was a nationally-renowned neurologist whose work helped establish the emerging fields of forensic psychiatry and neuropsychiatry. He was a remarkable clinician with unusual capacity to diagnose and identify neurological and psychotic illnesses in highly complicated and sophisticated people, including well-known artists, writers, and intellectuals. Notably, in Eugene O'Neill's last years, the playwright moved to Boston so that he could live close to Kozol's father's office. In addition to his successful private practice in Boston, Kozol operated in a grim arena marked by extreme violence. But while his role as a forensic expert placed him in the public eye for high-profile criminal defendants such as Albert DeSalvo (the Boston Strangler) and Patty Hearst, he was--as his son articulates--"a healer of tormented people, not their judge, not their interrogator." With the same lyricism and clarity that have defined Kozol's acclaimed work on education for decades,The Theft of Memory intimately describes Harry's vibrant life, the challenges following his self-diagnosis of Alzheimer's, and the evolution of their relationship throughout. This unique biography will have a long shelf life as a moving portrait of an extraordinary man, a window into the heart of one of our nation's foremost education activists, and a frank examination of how we come to terms with caregiving"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kozol, Jonathan
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RC523.2
- LC item number
- .K68 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Kozol, Harry L
- Alzheimer's disease
- Neurologists
- Fathers and sons
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical
- MEDICAL / Caregiving
- Label
- The theft of memory : losing my father, one day at a time, Jonathan Kozol
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. The Onset of an Illness -- 2. End of Days -- 3. A Fascination with Predicament -- 4. "Can You Take Me Home with You?" -- 5. Clinical Considerations: "All Tests Negative" -- 6. A Sentimental Longing -- 7. Coming Home -- 8. A Sense of Exploration -- 9. My Father and Mother: Together and Apart -- 10. My Mother Gives Me My Instructions -- 11. The Pursuit of Recollection -- 12. The Future in Our Memories -- Epilogue: 2015
- Control code
- 904334969
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- xi, 302 pages
- Isbn
- 9780804140973
- Lccn
- 2014041699
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904334969
- Label
- The theft of memory : losing my father, one day at a time, Jonathan Kozol
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. The Onset of an Illness -- 2. End of Days -- 3. A Fascination with Predicament -- 4. "Can You Take Me Home with You?" -- 5. Clinical Considerations: "All Tests Negative" -- 6. A Sentimental Longing -- 7. Coming Home -- 8. A Sense of Exploration -- 9. My Father and Mother: Together and Apart -- 10. My Mother Gives Me My Instructions -- 11. The Pursuit of Recollection -- 12. The Future in Our Memories -- Epilogue: 2015
- Control code
- 904334969
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- xi, 302 pages
- Isbn
- 9780804140973
- Lccn
- 2014041699
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904334969
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