POST HILL PRESS
June 30, 2020
IBSN 9781642934977
240 pages
Hardcover $27.
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SIMON & SCHUSTERSANFORD D. GREENBERG is Chairman of the Board of Governors
of The Johns Hopkins University’s Wilmer Eye Institute, the largest
clinical and research enterprise in ophthalmology in the United States.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a Trustee Emeritus
of The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine, which
incorporates the School of Medicine and the Hospital.President Clinton appointed Dr. Greenberg to the National Science
Board. He served as Chairman of the Rural Health Care Corporation.
Dr. Greenberg was a founding director of the American Agenda. He
also served as a director of the National Committee on United States–
China Relations.Dr. Greenberg received his B.A. as Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia
University in 1962. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard
University, and his M.B.A. from Columbia University. He was a
Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and attended Harvard Law
School. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Sue; they have
three children and four grandchildren.Hello Darkness, My Old Friend
How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned
One Man’s Blindness into an Extraordinary Vision for Life
SANFORD D. GREENBERG
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.