How Long to Read Crusade to Heal America

How Long Does it Take to Read Crusade to Heal America?

It takes the average reader to read Crusade to Heal America by Judith Pearson

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Description

Crusade to Heal America paints the never-before-told story of a remarkable woman and her remarkable life. As a health activist and philanthropist, Mary Lasker worked to raise funds for medical research and was co-creator of the Lasker Foundation. The Lasker Award is considered the most prestigious American award in medical research. Lasker and her husband joined the American Society for the Control of Cancer which at the time was sleepy and ineffectual and transformed it into the American Cancer Society. Following her husband's death, she founded the National Health Education Committee. She also played major roles in promoting and expanding the National Institutes of Health, helping its budget expand by a factor of 2000 times from $2.4 million in 1945 to $5.5 billion in 1985. Lasker was also instrumental in getting the US government to fund the War on Cancer in 1971. The portrait that emerges in Pearsons's engaging and deeply researched biography is one of a feminist who used her femininity wisely. She was savvy, steely, and deliberate. At a time when women in research laboratories and the halls of Congress were an anomaly, Mary Lasker knew how to play the long game, smashing stereotypes in the fashion of female icons like Jeannette Rankin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Shirley Chisholm. She is inspirational not because she was poor, down-trodden, or in ill health. In fact, she was quite the opposite of all of those, which makes her tireless work on behalf of people she would never know even more extraordinary. More than a biography of a woman with a mission, this book is an absorbing history of the country's march toward newer and better treatments of humanity's most feared diseases and conditions. Mary positioned herself at the crossroads of politics, science and medicine - current hot topics in education and literature. And because of Mary's tenacity and unending lobbying, she is effectively the architect of NIH's heart and lung, mental illness, infectious diseases, and cancer institutes. Most significantly, she was the catalytic agent who persuaded Richard Nixon to sign the National Cancer Act, turning the tide on survivorship of the disease.

How long is Crusade to Heal America?

Crusade to Heal America by Judith Pearson is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

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How Long Does it Take to Read Crusade to Heal America Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read Crusade to Heal America aloud.

What Reading Level is Crusade to Heal America?

Crusade to Heal America is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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