{"product_id":"with-honor-melvin-laird-in-war-peace-and-politics-hardcover","title":"With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDale Van Atta\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNational Jewish Book Award Finalist for Memoir \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman--Joy Ladin. In Through the Door of Life, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self.\u003cbr\u003e With unsparing honesty and surprising humor, Ladin wrestles with both the practical problems of gender transition and the larger moral, spiritual, and philosophical questions that arise. Ladin recounts her struggle to reconcile the pain she experienced living as the \"wrong\" gender with the pain of her children in losing the father they love. We eavesdrop on her lifelong conversations with the God whom she sees both as the source of her agony and as her hope for transcending it. We look over her shoulder as she learns to walk and talk as a woman after forty-plus years of walking and talking as a man. We stare with her into the mirror as she asks herself how the new self she is creating will ever become real.\u003cbr\u003e Ladin's poignant memoir takes us from the death of living as the man she knew she wasn't, to the shattering of family and career that accompanied her transition, to the new self, relationships, and love she finds when she opens the door of life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDale Van Atta is the author of\u003ci\u003e Trust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetrayed: Inside the AARP\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Jack Anderson, \u003ci\u003eStormin' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e: An American Hero.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Washington, D. C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 664\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.69 x 9.28 x 6.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45310247796838,"sku":"9780299226800","price":48.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/K2JIekVIbmJBQ3VLT3NrdXVteGFEQT09.webp?v=1774234237","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/with-honor-melvin-laird-in-war-peace-and-politics-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}