When the Worst That Can Happen Already Has: Conquering Life's Most Difficult Times

In this intimate social history of the human will in action, a dazzling array of survivors provide inspirational epilogues to their personal disasters. We hear from Jim Brady, Ronald Reagan's press secretarymc , who was shot in the head during the attempted assassination of the president; from Georgeann Fuller, who lost her husband in the bombing of Pam Am flight 103; and from dancer Bill T. Jones, whose lover and dance partner, Arnie Zane, died of AIDS. Betty Ford, Larry King and Peggy Say (sister of recently freed Middle East hostage Terry Anderson) contribute testimony. what is this?/got me; should have been queried earlier; not in dictionary and can't find it in the galley, so I've cut.gs Doctors, psychologists, priests and a rabbi are among the 50 people who examine their bouts with catastrophe. Those who have suffered have a greater capacity for intimacy and make winning friends, concludes one minister. Wholey's ( The Courage to Change ) assembled accounts offer incandescent proof. (May)