Jans Story, Barry Petersen
Jans Story, Barry Petersen
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Jan's Story
Love Lost to the Long Goodbye of Alzheimer's

Author: Barry Petersen

Narrator: Barry Petersen

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/03/2010


Synopsis

Imagine hearing these words: "She has Alzheimer's."

Now imagine that "she" is vibrant, active, loving, healthy...and just fifty-five.

Acclaimed CBS News reporter Barry Petersen writes about hearing the unimaginable; what it meant, what it still means, what he did—and didn't do—and how this beautiful love story needs to be heard by the thousands of families who have already heard that same devastating diagnosis: EARLY ONSET ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.

Even though Barry has spent his long-time, award-winning television career covering wars and events that shaped the world, he was not even slightly prepared for what happened to his darling wife, Jan, and how it would impact his life.

About Barry Petersen

Multiple Emmy Award winner Barry Petersen has covered wars and genocide, interviewed dozens of stars, and talked with several Bosnian War Crimes Tribunal suspects. Barry earned one of his Emmys for reporting the Siege of Sarajevo for CBS Sunday Morning. He shared both Peabody and DuPont Awards for being a part of the CBS News Radio coverage of the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, and an Edward R. Murrow Award for Sports Writing for a story on baseball coming to Beijing. Barry works for CBS News and makes his home in Denver, Colorado.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lawrence on July 13, 2010

This book is the story of CBS News reporter Barry Petersen's wife Jan and their marriage and how it was impacted by her early affliction with Alzheimer's Disease. I learned about the book when the CNN Morning Show's anchor John Roberts interviewed Mr. Petersen. It was a poignant interview since Mr.......more

Goodreads review by شيماء on December 28, 2016

Is it a story about Jan ? No, it's Barry story !! That what I found........more

Goodreads review by Nancy on July 31, 2010

This book was more about what the writer was going through, rather than what his wife was. At times I questioned his decisions (hauling her back and forth from Tokyo to Beijing?!) as her disease progressed. It is definately written from a man's perspective, which is to say it was all about HIS loss,......more