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Pam Belluck has been a staff writer for the
New York Times
for more than fifteen years, during which she has written about everything from cattle rustling to embryo adoption and reported from places as diverse as Medellín, Colombia, and Seongham, South Korea. She served for more than a decade as a national bureau chief, covering some of the biggest stories for the paper. She is currently a health and medical writer for the
Times
. She has won several awards, a Knight fellowship, and a Fulbright, and her work has been selected for
The Best American Science Writing
and
The Best American Sports Writing
anthologies.

PublicAffairs is a publishing house founded in 1997. It is a tribute to the standards, values, and flair of three persons who have served as mentors to countless reporters, writers, editors, and book people of all kinds, including me.

 

I. F. STONE, proprietor of
I. F. Stone’s Weekly
, combined a commitment to the First Amendment with entrepreneurial zeal and reporting skill and became one of the great independent journalists in American history. At the age of eighty, Izzy published
The Trial of Socrates,
which was a national bestseller. He wrote the book after he taught himself ancient Greek.

 

BENJAMIN C. BRADLEE was for nearly thirty years the charismatic editorial leader of
The Washington Post.
It was Ben who gave the
Post
the range and courage to pursue such historic issues as Watergate. He supported his reporters with a tenacity that made them fearless and it is no accident that so many became authors of influential, best-selling books.

 

ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN, the chief executive of Random House for more than a quarter century, guided one of the nation’s premier publishing houses. Bob was personally responsible for many books of political dissent and argument that challenged tyranny around the globe. He is also the founder and longtime chair of Human Rights Watch, one of the most respected human rights organizations in the world.

For fifty years, the banner of Public Affairs Press was carried by its owner Morris B. Schnapper, who published Gandhi, Nasser, Toynbee, Truman, and about 1,500 other authors. In 1983, Schnapper was described by
The Washington Post
as “a redoubtable gadfly.” His legacy will endure in the books to come.

Peter Osnos,
Founder and Editor-at-Large

Copyright © 2012 by Pam Belluck.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Belluck, Pam.

p. ; cm.

eISBN : 978-1-610-39017-0

I. Title.

[DNLM: 1. Lepore, Timothy J. 2. Physicians—Atlantic Ocean—Biography. 3. Physicians—Massachusetts—Biography. 4. Rural Health Services—Atlantic Ocean—Biography. 5. Rural Health Services—Massachusetts—Biography. WZ 100]

LC Classification not assigned
vii610.92—dc23

[B]

2011053117