No Greater Privilege: A Yankee Physician in King Cotton's Court

Jack Kirschenfeld’s compelling autobiography opens with a vivid account of his own heart attack, and concludes with a candid appraisal of the state of medicine in the United States at the close of the 20th century. In between, he takes the reader on a journey across seven decades, as a young immigrant grows up in New York, beats the odds to get into medical school, goes to war, and improbably launches a medical career in the heart of the Deep South.

Lowndes County, Alabama, where the young d...