David Dary

Despite Dary's "facts only," journalistic writing style, the details he presents are mesmerizing. Whether he intended to or not, Dary gives his reader's insights into how the almost mythic American can-do personality emerged. One note about the Nook version of this book--the notes are not hyperlinks, you have to set bookmarks to navigate between the narrative and the notes pages.

Hardback, First Edition, 2000

Some good observations of medicine past and present and oogie descriptions of medical practices, but read too often like an outline.

Interesting stories, well-written, but rather elementary in its approach. It would have been better for me to have had a more scientific approach to the book. The author was a journalist so that was not going to happen. The random and obscure stories were interesting and relevant, there just needed to be more substance.