Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease

Morton Kondracke did not intend to marry Millicent Martinez. He thought he ought to marry an Ivy League heiress whose connections and credentials might help his career. But Milly -- a Mexican American, wrong-side-of-the-tracks Chicago kid and daughter of a radical labor organizer -- eventually captured his heart. They married, and loved and fought passionately for twenty years. Then in 1987, Milly noticed a glitch in her handwriting; a small tremor which would lead to the shattering diagnosis of…