![]() ![]() ![]() 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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