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Terry: My Daughter's Life-And-Death Struggle with Alcoholism
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Terry: My Daughter's Life-And-Death Struggle with Alcoholism Paperback - 1997

by George McGovern

Just before Christmas 1994, Senator George McGovern received the terrible news that his 45-year-old daughter, Terry, had frozen to death while in an alcoholic stupor. With courage and compassion, McGovern addresses the private tragedy that was Terry's affliction, providing a valuable contribution to the understanding of alcoholism and personal loss.


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"McGovern's story is riveting as he investigates his daughter's life, reads her anguished and accusatory diaries, interviews her friends and doctors, sifts through the sordid police and medical records...a family drama of love and loss."—The New York Times Book Review.

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George McGovern served in the U.S. Senate for 18 years and was the 1972 Democratic candidate for president. He directed the first Food for Peace Program under former president John F. Kennedy. A decorated World War II bomber pilot (Distinguished Flying Cross), he holds a PhD in history from Northwestern University and is a former professor at Dakota Wesleyan University. He was named by former president Bill Clinton in 1997 as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization. In 2000, he was awarded by Clinton the nation's highest honor, the Medal of Freedom.  He died in 2012 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of 90.

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  • Title Terry: My Daughter's Life-And-Death Struggle with Alcoholism
  • Author George McGovern
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume Books, New York, New York, U.s.a.
  • Date 1997-08-01
  • ISBN 9780452278233 / 0452278236
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.36 x 0.63 in (20.27 x 13.61 x 1.60 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Library of Congress subjects Alcoholics - United States, Alcoholics - Family relationships - United
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97011886
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • New York Times, 01/25/1998, Page 24

About the author

George McGovern served in the U.S. Senate for 18 years and was the 1972 Democratic candidate for president. He directed the first Food for Peace Program under President John F. Kennedy. A decorated World War II bomber pilot (Distinguished Flying Cross), he held a PhD in history from Northwestern University and taught at Dakota Wesleyan University. He was named by former president Bill Clinton in 1997 as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization. In 2000, he was awarded the nation's highest honor, the Medal of Freedom. He died in 2012 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, at the age of 90.
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