A Question Of Intent: A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry (Great American Battle with with a Deadly Industry)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.95 (619 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1586481215 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 492 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Behind the Scenes at FDA" according to A Customer. This book does a splendid job of relating the twists and turns of investigating what tobacco companies knew about tobacco's dangers and when. The movie "The Insider" only touchs on all of the secrets and manuevering that surrounded the issue.Dr. Kessler discusses it all. And, we learn along with him as he walks the reader through what he had to uncover. I think. A Real Eye-Opener This book is fascinating in terms of facts and timing of their establishment by the tobacco industry and the painstaking search and revelation of these by the FDA. The author's ego is a bit too present throughout however this does not diminish the telling of the tale. There is far more here than was ever printed in the press. One's view of the industry cannot h. "Civics lesson that reads like a thriller" according to Maddi Hausmann. Wow. Who would have thought a book on the history of the FDA's handling of tobacco regulation would read like a spy novel? I grabbed this book off the new books shelf at the library, and picked it up expecting to skim through it. Kessler begins with how he was chosen to head the FDA, and introduces several of his staff including the one who started him toward t
In this book he tells for the first time the thrilling detective story of how the underdog FDA—while safeguarding the nation's food, drugs, and blood supply—finally decided to take on one of the world's most powerful opponents, and how it won. David Kessler didn't care about all that. They had congressmen in their pocket. Full of insider information and drama, told with wit, and animated by its author's moral passion, A Question of Intent reads like a Grisham thriller, with one exception—everything in it is true.. They had a whole lot of money to spend
But the driving force behind Kessler's narrative is how he slowly woke up to the possibility of regulating cigarettes. So did Kessler, at least initially. Miller. This is the David-and-Goliath story of how an American bureaucrat took on the tobacco industry--and helped topple it. Much of the book deals with the routine business of the FDA: orange-juice seizures, a fight to restrict the sale of body tissues from foreign sources, how he responded to complaints that syringes were found in Pepsi cans, and so on. But they were instrumental in forcing tobacco companies to admit that nicotine is addictive and cigarettes cause cancer, and in bringing about a sea change in the industry's legal and popular standing. Even before making the choice to go after cigarettes, Kessler was a figure of controversy, and this only intensified when he became one of the few Republican holdovers in the Clinton administration. David Kessler, head of the