Burl: Journalism Giant and Medical Trailblazer

The riveting biography of Burl Osborne, former chairman ofThe Associated Pressand publisher ofThe Dallas Morning News, who waged and won one of the last great newspaper wars in the U.S. Burlis the story of one man's unlikely rise from the coal mines of Appalachia to the pinnacle of journalism. After being diagnosed with a fatal kidney disease as a child, Burl Osborne pioneered home dialysis treatment and became the 130th person to undergo a live kidney transplant in 1966--then an unproven, ...