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"Brilliant and utterly exhilerating, this wry, revealing, and insightful journey into his own life once again reveals how David Zimmerman has been filling the footsteps of the legendary independent journalist Izzy Stone, author of I.F. Stone's Weekly. Zimmerman, an exceptional reporter and writer, has spent much of his seventy-year career exposing industry falsehoods, in politics and Big Science, in the New York Times and other major media, and has published five book-length works of nonfiction. The Times has described him as ""an able and extraordinarily industrious science writer."" In this memoir, Zimmerman travels a long road--from a citified childhood in Chicago to a career as a wildlife investigative reporter, and from the deepest intimacies of private life to the broad panoramas of his chosen field. The disappearance of a sleeptime toy, a fantasy animal, and his lifetime effort to reclaim it, shape this worldwide odyssey. You will meet Santhi in these pages, and you will come to see how fantasy and reality have richly combined to form the author's creative lifetime. It's a trip well worth taking."

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This is not a paint-by-numbers portrait of a reporter's well-lived life. Instead, it's an unflinching, unsentimental account of a life marked by fierce independence; a refusal to accede to the lure of public relations specialists; and a description of the successes and failures of a top science writer in his personal life as well as in his journalistic one. 'My aim is to challenge and confound the status quo with new and better news, ' David Zimmerman writes about his 'weenie theory of reporting.' And he delivers--detailing compelling, original stories about scientific advances, controversies, and hypocrisies. Intertwined, he weaves in his personal history as the son of a doctor, husband of a psychiatrist, landlord to a house of prostitution, and longtime bedwetter in triumphant, funny and sometimes painful detail. A great read for anyone interested in a warts-and-all description of the life of a science writer. --Thomas G. Watkins, science writer After a long and successful career as a medical journalist, Zimmerman shares a tender, personal memoir of growing up as oldest of sixteen grandchildren, all living within walking distance, in a middle-class professional Jewish family in Hyde Park, Chicago. The shared holiday celebrations together. His father, a prominent surgeon and a dominating mother were strong influences in his complicated family life. --Dori Gerber, docent at the New York Botanical Garden I was happy to read of your fertile period with raptors, DDT, and bird conservation--when you accessed top-notch publication sites and your work was celebrated. I was there. It was a good, important time for all of us! We caught the post-Rachel Carson wave and documented in detail phenomena that she could only sketch out or hypothesize about. David, in my experience you have been an endlessly curious and incisive reporter of science and society. --Paul Spitzer, Ph.D., ecologist

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