Description
Starting his adult life as a model in New York in the 1940s DuVal climbed his way as much as being appointed Assistant Secretary of Health throughout Nixon’s administration and in the end being instrumental in the founding of the University of Arizona’s medical school. Even as DuVal was once a public man with a long list of accomplishments, this may be a deeply personal account in which a high-powered doctor discovers that his children grew up without in reality knowing him.
A year before his death, Dr. DuVal worked with journalist Linda Valdez to tell his story, and the actual delight of this book is reading along as this man of remarkable intellectual curiosity examines his own life, his profession, and our society.