A Million Reasons: Why I Fought for the Rights of the Disabled
By Alan Labonte with Brock Brower
Pub Date: June 2006 Autobiography/Legal 320 pages 6x9 0-9700476-7-3 $26.00
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Alan Labonte narrates his extraordinary experience of being abruptly fired as Executive Director of a prestigious Boston law firm. Shocked at the act as he had done much for the firm, he realizes it was because he informed them of his being diagnosed with MS.
An amazing legal battle and spiritual journey follows.
Ultimately, Labonte rejects a three million dollar settlement offer, and wins his case setting legal precedent for millions of people with disabilities.
ALAN LABONTE, Doctor of Business Administration, teaches at Boston University and is a Senior Research Associate on a VA health care project. He and his wife, Lora, live in Scituate, Massachusetts.
BROCK BROWER is a novelist and journalist. His prior novels are Blue Dog, Green River, Debris, and The Late Great Creature, which was nominated for a National Book Award. He is also an award-winning writer of short stories, whose work has been anthologized in the O. Henry Prize Stories. He currently teaches a graduate journalism course at Dartmouth College and lives in Norwich, Vermont with his wife Anne, an artist.