The Last of His Mind: A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

by JohnThorndike (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $45.44

  the author was managing editor of Life at the height of its popularity immediately following World War II. But at age 92, in the space of six months he stopped reading or writing or carrying on detailed conversations. This book offers an account of a son's final year with his father, and a candid portrait of an implacable disease.