LONG GOODBYE - The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan

Carlsbad, California: Hay House, 2002. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiii) 416 pp. Quarter-bound in blue on white boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband; decorated endpapers; illustrated with black and white plates. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with a few small dents in the front panel; price intact; no interior markings. This follows an ordinary family's extraordinary journey to the United States Supreme Court. It looks behind the scenes at the painful human cost exacted in a highly public legal battle. The Chapters are: PART ONE: 1983 - 1986: Krummel Nursery Road; Phone Calls; Simple Surgery; Feeding Nancy; Chigger Hill; Christmas 1984; Going Public. PART TWO: 1987 - 1988: Pro Bono Case; Lunch with the Judge; Friendly Suit; 501 Main Street; Seeing Nancy; Motion to Dismiss; Expert Witness; Under Oath; The State Expert; Trial Begins; Brain Scans; A Valentine's Card; Family Matters; The Cruzans on Nightline; The State's Case; Hostile Witness; Throwing Mud. PART THREE: 1988 - 1989: Joe's Mailbox; The Decision; Electrocerebral Silence; Front Row Seats; False Alarm; Writing Governor Ashcroft; June Opinions; Friends and Foes; Solicitor General Starr; The Supreme Court of the United States. PART FOUR: 1990: Eight Words; New Witness; A New Trial; December Decision; Operation Rescue; Saying Goodbye; and Nancy's Christmas Gift..