Hello Darkness, My Old Friend

by Sanford D. Greenberg, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Introduction), Art Garfunkel (Introduction), Margaret Atwood (Other)

Overview

It's a bitterly cold February in 1961, and Sandy Greenberg lies in a hospital bed in Detroit, newly blind. A junior at Columbia University from a Jewish family that struggled to stay above the poverty line, Sandy had just started to see the world open up to him. Now, instead of his plans for a bright future—Harvard Law and politics—Sandy faces a new reality, one defined by a cane or companion dog, menial work, and a cautious path through life.

But that's not how this story ends.

In the depth of his new darkness, Sandy faces a choice—play it "safe" by staying in his native Buffalo or return to Columbia to pursue his dreams. With the loving devotion of his girlfriend (and now wife) Sue and the selflessness of best friends Art Garfunkel and Jerry Speyer, Sandy endures unimaginable adversity while forging a life of exceptional achievement.

From his time in the White House working for President Lyndon B. Johnson to his graduate studies at Harvard and Oxford under luminaries such as Archibald Cox, Sir Arthur Goodhart, and Samuel Huntington, and through the guidance of his invaluable mentor David Rockefeller, Sandy fills his life and the lives of those around him with a radiant light of philanthropy, entrepreneurship, art, and innovation.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163038626
Publisher:	Post Hill Press
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	209,573
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Blinded at nineteen, Sanford Greenberg finished Columbia (Phi Beta Kappa) and, following a Marshall Scholarship at Oxford, received his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard and M.B.A. at Columbia. He was a White House Fellow under Lyndon B. Johnson and later chaired the federal Rural Healthcare Corporation and served on the National Science Board. His career as an entrepreneur and investor began when he invented, of necessity, a speech-compression machine for those who need to listen to and absorb large volumes of printed matter. In the decades since, among other initiatives, he created the first database tracking antibiotic resistance globally. A Johns Hopkins University and Medicine Trustee Emeritus, he is chairman of the Board of Governors of its Wilmer Eye Institute. Furthering his lifelong aspiration, he has instituted a prize for research toward ending blindness for all mankind.

Editorial Reviews

A majestic book, authored by the most 'haimish' of men. This should be required reading for every young person with a dream of helping their community.

Senator Ron Wyden