Description: Friedman tells the fascinating story of the friendship and extraordinary scientific collaboration of two prodigious men: Charles Lindbergh, once the most famous person in the world; and Dr. Alexis Carrel, the Nobel Prize-winning researcher who pioneered biotechnology. Eight-page b&w photo insert.
Brief description:
David M. Friedman has written for Esquire, GQ, and Rolling Stone, and was a reporter for New York Newsday and the Philadelphia Daily News. His first book, A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis, was published in more than a dozen countries. He lives in New York.
Review Quotes:
"Fascinating and deeply disturbing. I love this book. - Simon Winchester (bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman)
David M. Friedman's The Immortalists reads like riveting historical fiction but raises provocative questions about the shape of the future. - Ron Rosenbaum, best-selling author of The Shakespeare Wars and Explaining Hitler
"Fascinating, odd, troubling . . . and strangely poignant. In The Immortalists, David M. Friedman ably guides us through a thicket of science and politics." - Los Angeles Times
"The history of two brilliant achievers going so off-track because of their intellectual hubris is quite compelling--and instructive to modern readers." - USA Today
"Difficult to put down...this is the book to read." - New York Times