Book review: “The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma” by Barry Werth
When you long for something, when you dream about finding something, you’re hoping. The word “hope” in this sense doesn’t appear in The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma by Barry Werth until about two-thirds of the way through the book, and it’s only used three more times before the end. But hope is
Book review: “The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma” by Barry Werth
When you long for something, when you dream about finding something, you’re...
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He was the primary reporter and team leader on a wide variety of in-depth multi-part series on such subjects as the urban underclass, Chicago’s public school system and the middle-class migration out of the city. He has written extensively about his Catholic faith in articles and essays in a variety of newspapers and magazines, as well as in several books. His essays and poems have appeared widely in the United States and Europe. He is writing a book about Chicago’s elevated Loop.

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