The Fda Follies: An Alarming Look At Our Food And Drugs In The 1980s

by Herbert Burkholz

Looks at the actions of the Food and Drug Administration under Presidents Reagan and Bush, and describes the agency's reform under its new leader, David Kessler

240 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1994

About the author

Author Herbert Burkholz is best known for his "Sensitives" trilogy -- about a mind-reading troupe of intelligence operatives trained by the CIA -- and his literary novels Sister Bear, Spanish Soldier, and Writer-in-Residence.

A native New Yorker, Burkholz has lived in Spain, Italy, Greece, and Mexico. He has been a visiting lecturer at Yale University and Writer-in-Residence at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.