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Julie M. Fenster (* 20. November 1957 in "Upstate New York" ist eine US-amerikanische Sachbuch-Autorin und Historikerin. Sie ist Verfasserin und Mitverfasserin von mehreren Büchern mit Schwergewicht auf Ereignissen und Personen des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts.

Beschreibung

Julie M. Fenster studierte an der Colgate University und begann ihre Karriere als Autorin und Historikerin beim renommierten Automobilverlag Automobile Quarterly. Ihre dort erschienene Monographie Packard: The Pride mit Farbfotografien von Roy D. Query gewann den Best Book Award der National Automotive Journalism Conference (NAJC).

American Heritage expanded

Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It von 2001 erzählt die Entwicklung der Jahrmarktattraktion Lachgas zum Anästhetikum und die tragische Geschichte dreier mit ihrer Entdeckung verbundenen Personen, Horace Wells (1815–1848), William Thomas Green Morton (1819–1868) und Charles Thomas Jackson (1805–1880).

In Ether Day, Julie Fenster chronicles the transformation of "laughing gas" and ether from parlor entertainment devices to medical marvels -- what she calls "America's greatest medical discovery."

The anesthetic properties of ether were demonstrated for the first time in an operation at Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846 -- what Fenster calls "Ether Day." What has followed in the succeeding century and a half could certainly be termed a medical miracle, as anesthesia and surgical techniques evolve together. However, the financial value and professional glory that ether represented didn't make for a happily-ever-after tale. That is the story that unfolds in Ether Day.

Three men -- Wells, Boston dentist William T.G. Morton and Boston physician Charles Jackson -- were to claim credit for the discovery of anesthesia. Their animosity became so bitter that it ended up destroying them: Wells committed suicide, Morton attempted suicide and died shortly thereafter and Jackson ended his life in a mental institution.

"The tragedy," Fenster notes, "lies . . . in how pain . . . retaliated against the three men who'd dared to conquer it."

She is also the author of the award-winning Ether Day and Parish Priest, with coauthor Douglas Brinkley. Fenster lives in upstate New York.

Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It

by Julie M. Fenster '79 (HarperCollins 2001)

In Ether Day, Julie Fenster chronicles the transformation of "laughing gas" and ether from parlor entertainment devices to medical marvels -- what she calls "America's greatest medical discovery."

She appeared in a TV commercial for Cheapbooks, which aired in early 2008. She is shown at a book signing for her work "Race of the Century."

In January 2006, she and co-author Douglas Brinkley released Parish Priest, a biography of Father Michael J. McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus.[1]

In 2009, she published a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt's early political advisor Louis Howe, titled FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force that Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

She is the co-author of Debbie Wasserman Schultz book For the Next Generation: A Wake-Up Call to Solving Our Nation's Problems.[2]

I am from Upstate New York and graduated from Colgate University. By and by, articles that I wrote for American Heritage expanded into books, many of which are still sold on Amazon. In Presidential history, the first challenge is finding something new along a well-trodden path. My most recent title, Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation (Crown Publishers) gave me the rare opportunity to present a largely forgotten aspect of Thomas Jefferson and his administration. This summer (2016), I started work on my next book. I live on a farm in Central New York with the members of my family, some of whom are canine, feline or equine. People who visit say it seems to be 1804, or maybe 1810, on my farm. I can't deny that I like it just that way.

Werke

By Julie M. Fenster '79, , 1999. Brilliant, practical, obsessed with the day-to-day details of running a company -- all are characteristics of the greatest business leaders of our time. This book reveals remarkable insights into these men and women, teaching timeless lessons about business, money and human nature.

  • Yahoo! Ultimate Guide to Finance and Money on the Web from bonds to bills, mortgages to mutual funds, credit to car loans. Harper Paperbacks, 2000, ISBN 0061058785.
  • Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It. HarperCollins, 2001, ISBN 0-060-19523-1
  • Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine: The Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age (2003) Vorlage:ISBN
  • Race of the Century - The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race. Three Rivers Press (Crown Publishing, Random House, Inc.), New York, 2005, ISBN 978-0-307-33917-1.
  • Packard: The Pride. Automobile Quarterly Publications, Kutztown PA, 2006, ISBN 0-9711-4682-9.
  • The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, ISBN 0-230-60809-4
  • FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force That Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. 2009, ISBN 0230609104
  • The Spirit of Invention: The Story of the Thinkers, Creators, and Dreamers Who Formed Our Nation. Smithsonian, 2009, ISBN 0061231894.

als Ko-Autorin

  • Jefferson's America: The Expeditions That Made a Nation. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009 (3. Auflage 2014), ISBN 0307956482. Ko-Autor: Norman K. Risjord
  • Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism. Harper Perennial, 2006, ISBN 0-06-077685-4. Ko-Autor: Douglas Brinkley
  • For the Next Generation: A Wake-Up Call to Solving Our Nation's Problems. St. Martin's Press, 2013, ISBN ?

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Auszeichnungen

Packard: The Pride mit Farbfotografien von Roy D. Query gewann den Best Book Award der National Automotive Journalism Conference (NAJC).

2003 gewann sie mit Ether Day den Book/Multimedia Education Award der Anesthesia Foundation

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Weblinks

In early 1856, Abraham Lincoln was at a personal crossroads. Often despondent, he had grown bored with his work as a lawyer and was beginning to see himself as just a former Congressman without much of

Einzelnachweise

  1. Julie M. Fenster | Penguin Random House. In: PenguinRandomhouse.com .
  2. https://www.amazon.com/Next-Generation-Wake-Up-Solving-Problems/dp/1250000998
  3. Julie M. Fenster. In: HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher .
  4. Julie M. Fenster | AMERICAN HERITAGE. In: www.americanheritage.com .
  5. ASA January 2004 Newsletter. In: web.archive.org . Sep 27, 2007.

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