"'What can this old guy tell me that's going to help me when I get to a similar point?' Ted Koppel put that question to Morrie Schwartz during an interview conducted before the popular Brandeis sociology professor died of ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Morrie's illness gradually destroyed nerve cells in his body, leading him on a slow physical decline throughout which his mind remained sound, lucid, and even playful. This ABC News report caught the attention of one of Schwartz's former students, sportswriter Mitch Albom. He was motivated to being visit with his former teacher, which led to the best-selling book Tuesday with Morrie. Through it all, Schwartz demonstrates his hard-won wisdom with humor, wit, and candor that are truly amazing"--Back of container.
""'What can this old guy tell me that's going to help me when I get to a similar point?' Ted Koppel put that question to Morrie Schwartz during an interview conducted before the popular Brandeis sociology professor died of ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Morrie's illness gradually destroyed nerve cells in his body, leading him on a slow physical decline throughout which his mind remained sound, lucid, and even playful. This ABC News report caught the attention of one of Schwartz's former students, sportswriter Mitch Albom. He was motivated to being visit with his former teacher, which led to the best-selling book Tuesday with Morrie. Through it all, Schwartz demonstrates his hard-won wisdom with humor, wit, and candor that are truly amazing"--Back of container."@en
"Ted Koppel interviews Morrie Schwartz during his last years as he was suffering progressively from the effects of ALS, popularly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. They speak about life and death."@en
"Ted Koppel interviews Morrie Schwartz during his last years as he was suffering progressively from the effects of ALS, popularly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. They speak about life and death."
"Journalist Ted Koppel conducted a series of interviews with former Sociology professor Morrie Schwartz during the last year of his life after being diagnosed with ALS. These interviews are among the most requested and discussed over the last 25 years."@en
"Ted Koppel, host of ABC's Nightline, interviewed Brandeis University sociology professor Morrie Schwartz for NIghtline several times throughout the last years of his life as he dealt with his physical decline from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) and inspired a former student, sportswriter Mitch Albom, to write the bestselling book Tuesdays with Morrie."@en
"Ted Koppel interviews Morrie Schwartz during his last years as he was suffering progressively from the effects of ALS. They speak about life and death."
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