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...Lash, therefore, the balance of the Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy story was more than history. "I guess if I were starting life all over again and realized the pleasure I got out of writing biography," he says, "I would do some very serious work in training myself in psychiatry." Dismissing the idea that psychobiography is junk, Lash believes psychoanalyzing his subjects--something he does occasionally in Helen and Teacher--can be a very helpful tool in unravelling mysteries...
...chuckles and recalls when he began writing Helen and Teacher about three years ago. His seven-year-old granddaughter had come to Martha's Vineyard to visit him and when she learned of his latest project, she announced that she "knew all about Helen Keller." He asked her why. "Our teacher read us a book about Helen Keller," she responded. Lash says his granddaughter--and others like her--remember the story of Helen Keller because she ranks among a number of select historical figures that people can identify with. "It's very easy to understand why," he says. "Here...
...HUNDRED YEARS ago today in Tuscumbia, Alabama, "more of a village than a town," Helen Keller was born. The neighbors remembered her as a lively infant carried about the house on her mother's hip, raising a fuss like most children...
Less than a year after she entered the world, however, a disease--"they never quite figured out what it was" --injured Helen Keller for life. The story of the little girl from Alabama is one so familiar to most Americans that it does not bear repeating. With the constant aid and attention of Anne Sullivan Macy, the girl who could not see, hear or speak became more than a functioning member of society. When Helen Keller died in 1968 at the age of 87, she was eulogized as a force unto herself, a symbol of womanhood, of struggle, of America...
With Helen and Teacher, Joseph P. Lash introduces the first multi-perspective, carefully-documented and complete book about the life of one of America's genuine heroines. It is definitive; his book recovers old ground, unearths what others left behind and settles the dust on controversies about Helen Keller's life. He brings to his task an enormous talent for research, a kind and penetrating eye and, most importantly, humanity--a feeling for the influence that one person can have upon another...