Margaret Ripley Wolfe retired as professor of history at East Tennessee State University, Kingsport Center, in 2004. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including Daughters of Canaan: A Saga of Southern Women and Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American City.
"Wolfe's biography of Brown is an admirable detailing of the
procedures and perplexities of early food and drug regulation at
the municipal and state levels, strata not thoroughly explored
heretofore."--Journal of the History of Medicine"In short, this
both an instructive and a disturbing study, casting a baleful light
upon the pragmatic realities within which an idealistic and highly
talented public servant pursued a destiny far less fulfilling than
he deserved, while some of his politically motivated detractors,
such as Royal S. Copeland of New York, went on to highly rewarding
positions in such bodies as the United States Senate. It is a story
worth pondering and its author has told it well."--Journal of
Southern History"Wolfe effectively shows how the emerging
scientific professionals helped create effective government bureaus
under professional management only to have them fall into the hands
of another breed of professionals, the full-time politicians. In
demonstrating this, Wolfe, has done an excellent analysis of the
political situation in both Tennessee and New York City."--Journal
of American History"This nicely written study provides a glimpse at
food and drug control in Tennessee and New York."--Bulletin of the
History of Medicine"The book is a valuable case study of the
efforts of one scientific expert working to effect sanitary and
marketing reforms within the framework of state and big city
politics in the progressive period."--Choice"A needed
work."--Pharmacy in History
"This book is a very significant and useful contribution to the
history of public health in the United States."--George Rosen,
M.D., Professor of the History of Medicine, and Epidemiology and
Public Health, Yale University"In describing Lucius Polk Brown's
career, Margaret Ripley Wolfe presents a case example of how the
crusade for effective regulation of the American food and drug
supply during the Progressive era developed on the state and
municipal levels. As a study of a major figure in food and drug
regulation at the local level, this book pioneers in meeting an
important historiographical need. It contributes not only to food
and drug history, and the history of the Progressive
period."--James Harvey Young, Professor of History, Emory
University
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