Peter Pringle

In New Orleans, the widow of an attorney who died of lung cancer vowed to avenge his death by suing the tobacco companies. In Clarksdale, Mississippi, an outraged country lawyer discovered the cost of lung cancer care as his secretary's mother lay dying. In Washington, D.C., a young pediatrician became the first FDA administrator in ninety years to decide nicotine should be regulated as a drug. All three were warned: Don't mess with Big Tobacco. Then...

Documents the discovery of Streptomycin, the first effective cure for tuberculosis, by Albert Schatz, a Rutgers College Ph.D. student, and his efforts to reclaim credit for his work from the department director who claimed credit for the discovery and was awarded a Nobel Prize for the finding.