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By: Olsen, Viggo; Lockerbie, Jeanette W.
Price: $7.82
Publisher: Chicago, IL, Moody Press: 1973
Edition: Fourth Printing
Seller ID: 002404
ISBN: 0802417450
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Daktar Diplomat in Bangladesh is the dramatic story of Dr. Viggo B. Olsen's phenomenal surgical/diplomatic/wartime adventures - and the bloody birth of Bangladesh. " "Propelled from a carefree Nebraska boyhood into the operating rooms of noted hospitals, Dr. Olsen rejects a remarkable opportunity in academic surgery to serve suffering East Pakistanis half a world away. When war strikes, he rejects evacuation to treat the injured and face a killing, burning, raping army. " B & w photographs throughout. With a cloth cover, the jacket has a very small tear at the bottom back, and show... View more info
By: Maier, Thomas
Price: $6.44
Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Basic Books: 2003
Edition: First Softcover Edition
Seller ID: 002366
ISBN: 0465043151
Condition: New with no dust jacket
Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903-1998) is known for revolutionizing mainstream American family life with his book Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, for the controversy caused by his psychological advice, and for his early and courageous opposition to the war in Vietnam. Now, for the first time, award-winning biographer Thomas Maier tells the complete story in his acclaimed biography, Dr. Spock: An American Life. Drawing on his extensive interviews with Spock and his family, and exhaustive research, Maier reveals the surprising and complicated journey of the man who said, "Trust yourself. You know m... View more info
By: Brands, H. W.
Price: $18.40
Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Basic Books: 1997
Seller ID: 4350
ISBN: 0465069592
Condition: New
Brand's narrative is lucid, fast-moving and unblinded by hero-worship. In a single volume he has packed Roosevelt's 60 years of ambition, adventure, expediency, achievement, and finally, frustration at having peaked too soon. (Publishers Weekly). A biography of Theodore Roosevelt's amazing life, including his belief in heroes, his presidential years, and his charge up San Juan Hill. The prologue reveals injuries the man suffered with that are not widely known in this era. His wife and children are included, as that was his life: husband, father, president, hero. Much more exciting than this so... View more info
