"The Age of Cures: How American Scientists Saved Your Life" - Author Barry Werth in Conversation with Karen Brown

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Coolidge Museum. In partnership with Forbes Library, Broadside Bookshop is pleased to present a reading and conversation with local author Barry Werth. Barry will read from and discuss his new book, The Age of Cures: How American Scientists Saved Your Life. He will be joined in conversation by Karen Brown, a radio and print journalist with New England Public Media. Books will be available for sale and a signing will follow the reading and conversation. About the book: From the acclaimed author of Billion Dollar Molecule and The Antidote, a revisionist, passionate history of the pharmaceutical industry, detailing how the nascent industry ushered in an age of cures. For the past thirty-five years, the acclaimed author Barry Werth has been covering one of the most consequential and underappreciated stories of our time—the rise of pharmaceutical companies, along with the science of drug research and the people who make it all happen. Now he delivers The Age of Cures, a fascinating, in-depth history of the birth of the pharmaceutical industry in the United States, and reveals how that industry created the “miracle drugs” that have saved billions of lives. A lively work of science history, The Age of Cures is a case study of the values that made American research a model for the world, and a reminder of how society relies on investments in its scientists. About the speakers: Barry Werth is an award-winning journalist and the author of eight books. His landmark first book, The Billion-Dollar Molecule, recounts the founding and early struggles of a startup pharmaceutical company, Vertex, in its quest for the perfect drug. His sequel, The Antidote, continues the story of Vertex as it emerges as a leader in delivering breakthrough medicines. The Age of Cures, the final book in his trilogy, introduces readers to the founding visionaries of the pharmaceutical revolution. Karen Brown is a radio and print journalist who focuses on health care, mental health, children’s issues, and other…

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