The Last Best Of All Times

Robert Semenza has always considered himself fortunate to have been brought up in what may have been, in his mind, the “last best of all times”—”an era that spanned only a little more than a decade and a half, from the early forties to the midfifties, from World War II to the Korean ‘police action,’ from FDR to Harry [the buck stops here] Truman to Ike.” He was even more blessed to be raised in an environment where he was “surrounded by a wealth of love and warmth from our parents and a see...