Death Be Not Proud

And in class we read the book Death Be Not Proud which is a true story of the author's son's battle with brain cancer.

It was the writer who wrote Travels of Europe and Travels of USA?

And he, Gunther?

John Gunther.

And it's the story of his son battling brain cancer and I remember reading that book and being jealous of and the kid loses the battle he dies and I read the book and I remember thinking that guy got so much attention.

I also recommend another book that I love in this interview called Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther.

there's a beautiful book called I'm now forgetting the name but John Gunther who was like one of the great journalists of the 20th century like the night 30s 40s 50s he wrote this book about about his son I want to I want to find the name whose son was dying of cancer or something his younger son and he wrote this beautiful book about it and it's like I'd never heard of John Gunther I'd never heard of his son it was no longer a news story and you read this sort of heartbreaking book a sort of a letter from a father to a son about trying to capture this this boy's life this brief life you know the upside is that it's completely timeless and it it's it's impacting people far after both of them are gone

so it says soon after the book's release Dorothy Thompson who's apparently a oh she's the first American journalist expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 anyways she says has his had his son lived to be 90s and lived to be 90 and had his achievements filled in cyclopedias he could have made no greater achievement than this transmitted by his father to show us what on its highest levels of courage serenity serenity truth and beauty a human life can be to show us that as we live we die and that life and death are one