5/27/2023 0 Comments The cost of hope by amanda bennett![]() ![]() The book is an impressive feat and a darn good read, reflecting the skills Amanda acquired during decades of reporting and editing, as well as her biting wit, knack for the just right anecdote, and pitch perfect ear for the incisive quote. Along the way, Amanda dishes one of the most illuminating and digestible accounts I’ve read of why the U.S health care system is an unfathomable mess. ![]() ![]() In her latest book, The Cost of Hope: The Story of a Marriage, a Family, and the Quest for Life (Random House), Amanda carries off a high-wire act worthy of a novel, as she weaves together a hilarious retelling of the couple’s courtship in claustrophobic, pre-boom China and their cross-country lives together in the U.S., as they build a family and she builds a career, with a heart-tugging tale of their nine-year battle with Terrence’s cancer. Little did I know that her most enduring adventure there was her raucous romance with her late husband, the exceedingly eccentric polymath Terrence Foley. I first met Amanda Bennett in 1983 when she joined the New York bureau of the Wall Street Journal after her several-year posting for the paper in Peking (it was still Peking then). ![]()
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