Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer » (Unabridged)

NANCY G. BRINKER is the founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. She has served as Ambassador to Hungary and United States Chief of Protocol and is currently the Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control for the United Nations World Health Organization.  She has been the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Visit Nancy at nancygbrinker.com.

JONI RODGERS is the New York Times bestselling author of Bald in the Land of Big Hair, a memoir of her cancer treatment and recovery.

Nancy G. Brinker shares how her sister's struggle with—and death from—breast cancer led her to promise to raise money for scientific research in the hopes of one day curing the disease.

The Washington Post - Nora Krug

Brinker is more than a little proud of her own moxie…and the book is as much an ode to her own chutzpah and accomplishments as it is a compelling tale of living with cancer&#$8230;For those of us who have watched loved ones endure the disease, Brinker's chutzpah on our behalf is much appreciated.

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Note from the Coauthor

I SUZY 1

1 Where Will Meets Way 3

A Brief History of the Beast 12

2 Founder Effect 17

The Storyteller's Mastectomy 31

3 The Goodman Girls 37

Little Pearl Harbor 49

4 Women of the World 54

Forever Blonde 76

5 May Queen at Neiman Marcus 82

Cents and Sensibility 98

6 We All Fall Down 103

Mystery and Method 116

7 Wake Up, Little Suzy 121

Semper Pink 130

8 Make It Last 135

II EVOLUTION 153

9 A Seal Upon Thy Heart 155

When You Hear Hoofbeats 166

10 Flying into Love 173

Love and Other Cannonballs 184

11 Outside the Box 188

I Hope You Dance 201

12 Follow the Leader 205

The First Lady 212

13 Run the Good Race 217

Living one Step Ahead 231

14 Purpose in Perspective 237

Love Will Find A way 246

15 To Market, To Market 252

From Point a to Point B 270

16 My Kingdom for a Horse 275

III REVOLUTION 295

17 Bridge of Light 297

Higher Learning 309

18 Pride and Protocol 314

Where we Aren't, Where we are, and Where we want to be 325

19 Promise Me 334

Breast Cancer Timeline 337

Resources for Families Dealing with Breast Cancer 343