Twilight
By Henry GrunwaldForeword by Mark G. Ackermann
By Henry GrunwaldForeword by Mark G. Ackermann
By Henry GrunwaldRead by Arthur MoreyForeword by Mark G. Ackermann
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Published on Sep 25, 2012 | 144 Pages
Published on Sep 25, 2012 | 144 Pages
In 1992, when Henry Grunwald missed a glass into which he was pouring water, he assumed that he needed new eyeglasses, not that the incident was a harbinger of darker times. But in fact Grunwald was entering the early stages of macular degeneration—a gradual loss of sight that affects almost 15 million Americans yet remains poorly understood and is, so far, incurable. In Twilight, he chronicles his experience of disability: the discovery of what medicine can and can’t do, the clouding of his sight, the daily struggle to overcome its physical and psychological implications. This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight.
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Henry Grunwald
Henry Grunwald was the editor in chief of Time magazine and all other Time Inc. publications. During his tenure as editor in chief, he helped move the magazine away from Republican interests and personally wrote the editorial calling for Richard Nixon’s resignation. He served as the U.S. ambassador to Austria and was the author of One Man’s America: A Journalist’s Search for the Heart of His Country. He was both the namesake and the first recipient of the Henry A. Grunwald Award for Public Service for his work on shedding light on macular degeneration. He died in 2005.
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