A Life Twice Given - Softcover

  
In 2004, our son, David was killed in an ATV accident. A Life Twice Given is our effort to give David a life the only way we can, through fiction. We have also created a foundation in his honor, the David Gordon Louis Daniel Foundation: dgldfoundation.org
 
All author's proceeds from sales of the book will be donated to the foundation.

David Daniel was born in 1956 to Carlton Ralph Daniel and Beverly Beatrice Gordon. His father's family were the only Jews in a small town in southeast Georgia. They owned two clothing shops before the Great Depression, then lost everything and rebuilt. His mother's family were descendants of a rabbi and other eastern European Jews who settled in Meridian and Jackson, Mississippi and became prosperous merchants. 
 
During his grammar school and high school years, the civil rights movement and Cold War were prominent. His rabbi and others in the Jewish community actively supported desegregation, leading to bombing of the synagogue and rabbi's house by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967. During that period, it was not uncommon for Jewish families to sleep with firearms nearby for their protection. 
 
His favorite columnists as a child were William F. Buckley and Art Buchwald. He was torn between a career in journalism and medicine and elected the latter due to his interest in psychiatry. He obtained his medical school education and post-graduate training in psychiatry at Vanderbilt Medical School and began a research career in medical school with the study of cerebral blood flow patterns underlying behavior. He has  published extensively on the biological basis and treatment of psychotic disorders and has patented his own treatments.