“Silicone on Trial offers a meticulous and readable accounting of the breast implant fiasco, when an agency head’s arrogant mismanagement wrecked an industry and needlessly terrified millions of women, behavior that reveals a pernicious form of government corruption.” --Henry Miller MD, former director, Office of Biotechnology, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Silicone on Trial is an exceptional recounting of the controversial history of silicone medical devices, and how easily the public can be misled by dubious findings. Surgeon and historian Jack Fisher explains why government regulation falls prey to easy politics at the expense of sound science. Readers with breast implants or other implanted devices will find reassurance that silicone is safe for medical application. A plea is made for greater reliance on valid science instead of social activists and sensationalized media.
“A must read for surgeons frustrated by years of FDA paternalism, also for patients seeking truth about breast implants or any other silicone device." --James Wells MD, past president, American Society of Plastic Surgery

Silicone On Trial: Breast Implants and the Politics of Risk

Fisher, Jack

Sager Group, The

TV cameras, girls in skirts, Elvis, Ricky Nelson, Jackie Robinson. Mix in two unlikely friends, and the rest is part of rock and roll history. It was 1957 when Danny Sullivan first met Mike McCoy on the set of American Bandstand, just before Vietnam and Beatlemania pulsed through the veins of the nation. Danny, the chivalrous writer with a sheltered upbringing, was barely able to keep pace with the precocious street kid Mike, whose luck and instincts skyrocketed him to DJ stardom in the sixties. As different as two kids could find themselves, their friendship was beyond anyone's comprehension, especially theirs. Through the music and magic of the 50's and 60's, Danny and Mike remained thicker than thieves; that is, until they weren't. When Danny receives a sentimental letter from Mike decades later, the burning question is, what could Mike want after all this time? Mike's unusual request for his old friend to visit prompts Danny to begin a journey into the past. What he finds through reading Mike's journal is much more than a few boyish memories from that unforgettable time; now well into his seventies, Danny discovers that the good old days weren't always so good, and a street kid ain't as bad as he seems. Sing along and read... and as Mike McCoy would say, here's wishing you Blue Skies and Green Lights.

Blue Skies and Green Lights: A Tale of Music and Magic of the '50s and '60s

Literature & Fiction

Sistare, Susan A

Genre Fiction

Braindart Publishing

“The struggle of an unusual coalition of activists is wonderfully told in Stopping the Road. It should be required reading for all who love the High Sierra.”—Carl Pope, past director, The Sierra Club.
 Stopping the Road is an exceptional recounting of a fifty-year battle to stop the building of another road through the pristine wilderness of the Sierra Nevada, the breathtaking, 400 mile mountain range which encompasses Lake Tahoe, Mount Whitney and the Yosemite Valley—three national parks, twenty wilderness areas, and two national monuments. The book, written by historian Jack Fisher, brings together the history, geology, politics, and local human stories that characterized the struggle, which finally ended dramatically in 1972, with then-California governor Ronald Reagan riding out on horseback, wearing the white cowboy hat of the good guy, announcing a final defeat of the road—by order of President Richard Nixon.
How did it happen that a loose coalition of local citizens, with little or no political experience, were victorious against partisan politics? Fisher’s carefully researched saga brings real-life drama to the pages of history, another chapter in the enduring struggle between the interests of humanity and the temple of nature.
 "Stopping the Road is a remarkably well researched accounting of a landmark environmental victory. It tells us how perseverance in the struggle to protect natural lands can block a divisive road in its tracks.”—David Livermore, The Nature Conservancy 
 “Stopping the Road is an inspirational story of heroic determination in order to preserve a community and its nearby environment. Their efforts culminated in the 1984 California Wilderness Act.”—Deanna Dulen, superintendent, Devils Postpile National Monument.

Stopping the Road: The Campaign Against Another Trans-Sierra Highway

History

Americas

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