Displaying 1 of 1 2024 Format: Book Author: Fauci, Anthony S., 1940- author. Title: On call : a doctor's journey in public service / Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. Publisher, Date: [New York] : Viking, [2024] Description: xiii, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm illustration Summary: "The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents"-- Provided by publisher. Subjects: Fauci, Anthony S., 1940- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U.S.) -- Officials and employees -- Biography. Government physicians -- United States -- Biography. Immunologists -- United States -- Biography. AIDS (Disease) -- Research -- United States -- Popular works. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 -- United States -- Personal narratives. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 -- Government policy -- United States -- Popular works. LCCN: 2024011750 ISBN: 9780593657478 (hardcover) 0593657470 (hardcover) System Availability: 15 # System items in: 15 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Suggestions and more Librarian's View Large Cover Image Trade Reviews Publishers Weekly ReviewFauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, debuts with a revealing, if restrained, look back on his career in public service. Readers hoping Fauci would return fire against those who turned him into a political punching bag will largely be disappointed; he remains impressively even-keeled (if sharply critical) throughout the passages devoted to the Covid-19 pandemic, delivering a candid portrayal of the Trump administration's erratic, highly politicized approach to the coronavirus, which led to Fauci getting death threats, including a dramatic anthrax scare. The book's most gripping and personal section recounts the devastating AIDS crisis and Fauci's "complex" relationship with activist and playwright Larry Kramer, who once labeled Fauci a "murderer" in an op-ed (the two famously found a way to work together toward their common goal, and became close friends). Infusing the narrative with tender details from his private life (he starred on the basketball court at New York City's prestigious Regis High School, lost his mother to cancer while in medical school, and met his wife, Christine, in the trenches of the AIDS fight), Fauci closes with an urgent warning about what has him worried today: an "impending... crisis of truth" that will make disasters like pandemics "so much worse." It's a rich account of a life dedicated to keeping Americans safe. (June)Kirkus ReviewThe long-anticipated memoir. Fauci served as director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease for 38 years. He was widely known and admired within his profession but not to the general public until the Covid-19 epidemic. A talented researcher, he did groundbreaking work on immune and infectious diseases at the NIH and then became NIAID director at age 43. Except for a rare nod toward his family, Fauci confines himself to his professional life, delivering an illuminating, expert account of our government's encounters with infectious diseases over the past 50 years--stories that involve as much politics as science. Almost as soon as he took office in 1984, AIDS emerged as a worldwide catastrophe that dominates the book, later joined (but not superseded) by Covid-19. Along the way readers learn about battles against SARS, Ebola, Zika, malaria, tuberculosis, bioterrorism, and even influenza. Well before Covid-19, Fauci appeared in the media regularly, giving many the impression that he directed America's public health policy. In fact, that's the responsibility of the CDC in distant Atlanta (NIAID supports research), but Fauci was on hand in Washington, so reporters and officials regularly sought him out. President Trump assumed that Covid-19 would disappear after a few months. As it worsened and Fauci kept delivering bad news while others told the president what he wanted to hear, Trump and his staff began accusing Fauci of disloyalty and then incompetence. Quickly falling in line, congressional Republicans peppered Fauci with invective and investigations. The author describes several Trump aides as obnoxious; others were supportive; Trump himself gets off fairly lightly as often charming but bombastic and deeply ignorant. Fauci could not have led and expanded NIAID without the considerable political acumen he exercised under seven presidents, but he leaves no doubt that Trump tried him sorely. Most readers will appreciate this evenhanded account, though probably not unforgiving Trump supporters. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission. Summary #1 New York Times Bestseller The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents "An eventful autobiography and a classic American story...Gripping." -The Washington Post "One of the most consequential and most prominent careers in American medicine in the past fifty years." - Jerome Groopman , The New Yorker Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous - and most revered - doctor in the world today. His role guiding America sanely and calmly through Covid (and through the torrents of Trump) earned him the trust of millions during one of the most terrifying periods in modern American history, but this was only the most recent of the global epidemics in which Dr. Fauci played a major role. His crucial role in researching HIV and bringing AIDS into sympathetic public view and his leadership in navigating the Ebola, SARS, West Nile, and anthrax crises, make him truly an American hero. His memoir reaches back to his boyhood in Brooklyn, New York, and carries through decades of caring for critically ill patients, navigating the whirlpools of Washington politics, and behind-the-scenes advising and negotiating with seven presidents on key issues from global AIDS relief to infectious disease preparedness at home. ON CALL will be an inspiration for readers who admire and are grateful to him and for those who want to emulate him in public service. He is the embodiment of "speaking truth to power," with dignity and results. Table of Contents PrefacexiPart 1From Bensonhurst to Washington1Brooklyn Boy3Becoming Dr. Fauci18Heading South24Part 2The Aids Era31Game Changer33Up Close and Painful44The Human Immunodeficiency Virus49Taking the Reins61Two Brooklyn Boys68Building an AIDS Research Program75AIDS Strikes Close to Home82A Global Catastrophe91AIDS Activism95A President, a Gentleman, and a Friend118La Famiglia129The Changing of the Guard134The Search for an HIV Vaccine139The Lazarus Effect147HIV Denialism153An Unequal World158Part 3The Wars on Terror and Disease161Widening the Battle163The Day the World Changed167Anthrax174Going Global with AIDS Relief188Smallpox and Stockpiles213Project BioShield217You Have to Love Yogi225A Reluctant Congress228Iraq232Influenza Meets the Supply Chain240Legacies253Part 4Expecting the Unexpected259Enter Obama261Moving Toward an HIV-Free World273Epidemics of Disease and Fear287Patient X318Zika and Other Surprises330Passing the Baton341Part 5Covid343A Disease Like None Other345He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not374Illegitimi Non Carborundum409Epilogue451Acknowledgments457 Displaying 1 of 1
