Overview

This is the untold story of celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh and Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Alexis Carrel's five-year-long, ultimately successful quest to build a machine that could keep organs alive outside the bodies that created them - both a recounting of their bizarre medical quest to conquer death and a study of an unparalleled friendship and scientific partnership.

Full Product Details

9780060528157

Table of Contents

Reviews

Fascinating and deeply disturbing. I love this book.--Simon Winchester (bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman) Difficult to put down...this is the book to read. --New York Times 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

Difficult to put down...this is the book to read. -- New York Times

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 Difficult to put down...this is the book to read. --New York Times

Fascinating and deeply disturbing. I love this book.--Simon Winchester (bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman) Difficult to put down...this is the book to read. --New York Times 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 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 Difficult to put down...this is the book to read. --New York Times

Author Information

David M. Friedman is a writer based in New York. He has written for Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, and many other publications.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available