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bookdreamer24's review against another edition
5.0
It was very good! It was a unique audiobook. Fauci has done so much. I appreciate him even more.
papelgren's review against another edition
3.0
A brief and interesting biography of the man everyone loves to hate (or love, depending on your political stripe.) Specter goes back to Fauci's early days to when he discovered a treatment to a rare disease, and his dealings with the AIDS crisis, up to present day. The context is very helpful in understanding his present day motivations and actions. Its too bad he's been attacked so unfairly given everything he's done for the world.
brinysea's review against another edition
5.0
Part biography of Fauci, part discussion of the current pandemic and preparation for a future one. Great quick listen.
nina_rod's review against another edition
4.0
Well done audiobook with narration by someone who has covered Fauci for years. Also original interviews with Fauci used in the audiobook. Has controversy with the Covid pandemic, but also had controversy (on a smaller scale) with the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 90s.
wanderlustlover's review against another edition
5.0
Fall 2020 (October);
This book was so eye-opening in so many ways. I have already always understood what was at stake in our country, with the denials and muting of Tony Fauci, but this gave me an even deeper understanding of just how much he should have been listened to. Not only that, the number of decades he's done this job and how many presidents have listened to/relied on him and how many plagues he has already seen us through in his five decades leading this field.
I believe in him even deeper and I'm even more tragically saddened for what's happened to him and his family this year.
This book was so eye-opening in so many ways. I have already always understood what was at stake in our country, with the denials and muting of Tony Fauci, but this gave me an even deeper understanding of just how much he should have been listened to. Not only that, the number of decades he's done this job and how many presidents have listened to/relied on him and how many plagues he has already seen us through in his five decades leading this field.
I believe in him even deeper and I'm even more tragically saddened for what's happened to him and his family this year.
ebazilereads's review against another edition
3.0
This was really interesting! I didn't know too much about Fauci before the current crisis and I enjoyed learning about his role in managing previous epidemics, especially the HIV/AIDS one. I was moved by Fauci's openness to learning from people with lived experience with different illnesses and his ability to go against the current in order to fight for what is right.
laranda's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
A real interesting look into an important person who has had such an effect on some big infectious diseases.
kyra_ann_writes's review
4.0
Overall, I would say that I really enjoyed this book. If my rating only addressed the rendering of Dr. Fauci's life and impact, it would easily get 5 stars. Though I've always had respect for Dr. Fauci, I admire him all the more for his resolve, compassion, and tenacity amidst difficult (and often unnecessarily politically mired) circumstances. I also appreciated the direct and simple explanations of zoonotic diseases and evolving gene-editing technologies. I went through a phase in high school of reading all the books on zoonotic diseases I could find, and this book can join that bookshelf in more of a tangential way .
I docked a star for a book that I otherwise really loved because some of Specter's language seemed to reinforce dichotomies that don't really exist. In one place in particular, he asserts that after the Enlightenment, "Science replaced magic. Knowledge replaced faith." Language like this often presses into the somewhat exhausting notion that science and religion are somehow mutually exclusive, which couldn't be further from the truth. It's much more complicated than that.
I docked a star for a book that I otherwise really loved because some of Specter's language seemed to reinforce dichotomies that don't really exist. In one place in particular, he asserts that after the Enlightenment, "Science replaced magic. Knowledge replaced faith." Language like this often presses into the somewhat exhausting notion that science and religion are somehow mutually exclusive, which couldn't be further from the truth. It's much more complicated than that.