Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir - Richard M. Cohen

With a new Afterword, this New York Times bestseller chronicles and celebrates a life brimming with accomplishment and adversity as the author--veteran journalist Cohen--struggles for emotional and physical health. \n \nA hopeful look at coping with the ravages of serious chronic illness by an accomplished journalist, a contributing columnist for the New York Times, and former senior producer of the CBS Evening News\n \nRichard Cohen, a veteran journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for 30 years. Diagnosed with colon cancer twice in recent years, Cohen chronicles and celebrates a life brimming over with accomplishment and adversity, while struggling for emotional health.\n \n Autobiographical at its roots, reportorial, and expansive, Blindsided explores the effects of illness on raising three children and his relationship with wife Meredith Vieira (host of ABC's The View). He tackles the nature of denial and resilience and the redemptive effects of a loving family, and does so with grace, humor, and lyrical prose.\n \n\n