A Desperate Passion: An Autobiography

By Helen Broinowski Caldicott

Book Overview

Dr. Helen Caldicott, the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle declares, is back on the scene. A Desperate Passion is Caldicott's engaging, inspiring memoir, chronicling her life both on and off the scene. Raised in Australia and trained as a physician, she first found her voice protesting French nuclear tests in the Pacific. Years later she rose to international prominence, founding Physicians for Social Responsibility, which did perhaps more than any other group to thrust the nuclear issue under the public eye (New York Times).

Driven by intense passions, she seems to have adopted the world's population as her children. And all of us are probably better off as a result (East Bay Express Books)--but Caldicott, wife and mother of three, found that her success did not come without cost. This is a personal story too, a candid, revealing self-portrait of a woman who has not relinquished her remarkable efforts to save the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393316807
• ISBN13: 9780393316803
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A Very Informative and Vital Autobiography

This autobiography by Helen Caldicott is stunning in the information it offers. Caldicott is one of the most important women of our century and her discussion with Ronald Reagan's daughter is worth the price of the book alone. Caldicott as a nationally renown antinuclear activist --full of knowledge and bravier in her cause, had the credentials and intelligence to fight the good fight and her memoir of her adventures in doing so opens the eyes wide and fills the mind with jarring reality. She is a life saver, a gift to our salvation on earth--a woman one wants to know and understand and empathize with. Blessings on this book. Buy it. It will light up your mind with her intelligence and caring spirit. All of her books are vital as can be. Buy them. Read them and share them. Daniela Gioseffi, Author of WOMEN ON WAR: International Voices for the Nuclear Age, American Book Award, 1990