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Man and Woman, War and Peace, 1941-1951

Synopsis

A Dual Autobiography, Verbatim from Their Letters and Diary

All married couples will immediately appreciate, and benefit from, the lessons in marriage so forthrightly revealed in this uniquely veridical recording of married life. From courtship and honeymoon through the first 10 years the ecstasy, uncertainties, and contentions that seem inevitably to bestir relations between the sexes have been captured on line in their letters, and the daily diary of Elizabeth.

However, this is much more than a study in the vagaries of love. World War II is not only the background but the daily life of these participants. It loomed continually in their brief courtship, that was followed within 3 months by Pearl Harbor. Then the Army for Robert and the Atomic Bomb project for Elizabeth. Throughout the 4 years of repeated separation their daily letters convey not only their erotic longings, but the life of a draftee, officer training, war adventures in Italy and the Mediterranean, the bordellos of Karachi, North Atlantic convoy nights in fog, shipwreck in the Azores, plus ample philosophical commentary; and the trials of pregnancy and birth.

Postwar life sees the transformation of the lovers into father and mother, home owners, student, and, finally, triumph as an embryo Professor of Physiology. In all, a whirlwind of life's experiences, in remarkable diversity, replete with poetry, deeply divisive quarrels, and reasoned insight into how this swiftly moving marriage succeeded in achieving a wondrous level of enduring bliss and contentment.

Author Biography

Robert W. & Elizabeth N. Doty

Dr. Doty (PhD U of Chicago, 1950) can be found in Who's Who or, more extensively, in Squire, L (Editor), The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography, vol. 3. San Diego, Academic Press, pp 214-244, 2001. He was a member of the Founding Council of the Society for Neuroscience, and served as its President in 1976. The Society now exceeds 38,000 members, the largest solely scientific Society in the world. His extensive research on the neurophysiology of memory, vision and how the two halves of the brain communicate to form the unity of human experience is internationally recognized, and he has lectured widely thereon. He is presently a Professor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

Elizabeth Jusewich Doty (now deceased) worked in Labor Relations, and received the Medal of Merit in 1945 for her work on the Manhattan Project (atom bomb). Subsequently she devoted her time to her four children, and in strong facilitation of her husband's career.