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Fathers and Sons.(Book Review)
The Yale professor of medicine Sherwin Nuland begins LOST IN AMERICA: A JOURNEY WITH MY FATHER (Knopf) by evoking the depression that in his forties so debilitated him that only one doctor protested against his being lobotomized. This was, he thinks, the culmination of his unresolved relationship with his father, who "walks with me through every day of my life, in that unsteady, faltering gait that so embarrassed me when I was a boy."Meyer Nudelman cowed his family with his rage, but a mysterious, crippling illness also made him insecure and dependent. Only later, in medical school, did Nuland guess that his father had suffered from syphilis.
It is hard to imagine men with more to hide from their sons than those who participated in the Third Reich. Sigfrid Gauch's 1979 memoir of his Nazi father has been translated into English ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times March 30, 2003 700+ words
...A Journey With My Father (Knopf, $24, 210...relationship with his father, Meyer Nudelman, ". . . the very stereotype...were afraid of their father, who was given to sudden...unrelenting battles between fathers who have known little...
- `Lost in America: A Journey with My Father,' by Sherwin B. Nuland; Knopf.(The...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Marlowe, Kimberly B. February 19, 2003 700+ words
...introduction that it is an attempt to make peace with his father _ and himself. It is the story of an intelligent...well written. All things gold eluded Nuland's father, Meyer Nudelman. (The father kept his surname; the sons changed theirs to...
- Finding the truth about his father.(Sherwin Nuland, author of 'Lost in America'...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Silver, Marc February 10, 2003 700+ words
...his true feelings about his late father, Meyer Nudelman. Moody and angry, the Russian...Shep once walked his unsteady father to the movies, then refused to...the basketball game." And your father never spoke of your disdain...
- Toward the shores of understanding.
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Haberman, Clyde November 1, 2002 700+ words
...Journey with My Father By Sherwin B...themselves from their fathers. That's a...Everything about Meyer Nudelman embarrassed his...not take his father seriously...canyon separating fathers and sons is never...the truth of my father, and in the...FROM EARLY ON, Meyer ...
- The wounded healer.(Book Review)
- Newspaper article from: Cross Currents Heinegg, Peter January 1, 2004 700+ words
...of an impossible father, whose journey to...cast by the wretched Meyer Nudelman, the ferociously...swallowed up his father? But escape he did...tragic memory of his father will never let go. Meyer Nudelman's story could be...
- Lost in America?(Letter from the Editor)(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: American Scholar Fadiman, Anne January 1, 2004 700+ words
...ferociously honest memoir of his father, Meyer Nudelman. (Nuland and his brother changed...distance themselves from their father; in one of the book's most...School; and, most of all, his father, an immigrant garment worker...
- Fathers can provide invaluable information and support when they reach out to...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service June 12, 1996 700+ words
...three sources: from his own father, from his children and from other fathers. My father's dedication to the public...project, and ``Father to Father'' is now providing information and support to fathers across the country. A crucial...
- Father involvement in early head start programs.
- Magazine article from: Fathering Raikes, Helen H. Summers, Jean Ann Roggman, Lori A. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...program activities. Fathers participated in parent...socializations (15%), father-only activities...and maturity of the father involvement program...analyses showed that fathers in predominantly...characteristics of fathers, mothers, children...as predictors of father participation ...
