Now You Know

Description for NOW YOU KNOW by Kitty Dukakis with Jane Scovell: Most of us came to know Kitty Dukakis during the 1988 presidential campaign. Politically and personally, she was an integral part of Michael Dukakis's quest for the presidency: perhaps his greatest asset. When the campaign was over, however, Kitty faced the goughest fight of her life---a private, ongoing struggle to overcome depression and the addiction to alcohol and pills that accompanied it. In NOW YOU KNOW, Kitty speaks her mind with the same unflinching toughness and candor that characterized her media appearances throughout the campaign. It is an intimate and remarkably revealing look at a seemingly blessed, yet terribly troubled, life, an unforgettable self-portrait of a woman in crisis. As the daughter of a violinist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Kitty Dickson grew up on a house where it was simply assumed that she would excel. Her mother---a sometimes distant and daunting figure---was a perfect