He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)ISBN-13:9780804137492ISBN-10:804137498UPC:9780804137492Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Psychopathology, Mood DisordersBook Topic:Bipolar DisorderSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCTZJAMSNG
Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony Kushner A Washington Post Best Book of 2015 A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own. Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920s and 1930s. Early in his career,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)ISBN-13:9780804137492ISBN-10:804137498UPC:9780804137492Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Psychopathology, Mood DisordersBook Topic:Bipolar DisorderSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCTZJAMSNG
Mimi Baird, a Bostonian, is a graduate of Colby Sawyer College. After working at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she later moved to Woodstock, Vermont, where she worked as an office manager at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. There she met a surgeon who had once known her father, a meeting that prompted her quest to finally understand her father's life and legacy. Mimi has two...
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