He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him by Mimi Baird, Eve Claxton

He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him

Mimi Baird, Eve Claxton with John Bedford Lloyd (Narrator), Jane Alexander (Narrator), Paul Boehmer (Narrator)

6 hours, 37 minutes first pub 2015 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography memoir psychology emotional reflective slow-paced
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A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own.Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the...

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