Breaking Ground
My Life in Medicine
by Louis W. Sullivan
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Pub Date Feb 01 2016 | Archive Date Jun 17 2019
Description
In Breaking Ground, Louis W. Sullivan, M.D. recounts his extraordinary life including his childhood in Jim Crow south Georgia and continuing through his trailblazing endeavors training to become a physician in an almost entirely white environment in the Northeast. He was the founding dean and president of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, and served as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in President George H. W. Bush’s administration. Throughout his extraordinary life Sullivan has passionately championed improved access to health care for all Americans and greater diversity among the nation’s health professionals.
Sullivan’s life—from Morehouse to the White House and his ongoing work with medical students in South Africa—is the embodiment of the hopes and progress that the civil rights movement fought to achieve. His story should inspire future generations—of all backgrounds—to aspire to great things.
A Note From the Publisher
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Winner: NAACP Image Award: Outstanding Literary Work: Biography;
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Advance Praise
—President George H. W. Bush
“In this dramatic and revealing memoir that takes us from the segregated
backwoods of Georgia to the founding of the nation’s premier African
American medical school and the cabinet of President George H. W. Bush,
Lou Sullivan shows how commitment, courage, a sense of humor, and a
passion for health promotion and disease prevention can make life better
for all Americans.”
—Joseph A. Califano, Jr., top White House assistant for domestic affairs
under President Lyndon Johnson and secretary of Health, Education, and
Welfare in the Carter administration
“Lou Sullivan’s life story offers a compelling chronicle of how vision
and perseverance can overcome daunting obstacles. Sullivan is a genuine
American hero, and his life stands as a testament to how devotion to the
service of others can breech any barrier and ascend any height.”
—Jordan J. Cohen, M.D., MACP, President Emeritus, Association of American Medical Colleges
“Louis Sullivan proved that when leadership is rooted in compassion and
exercised with courage, it can be a powerful source of change. This book
provides insight into his personal roots, his professional drive, and
his historic decisions.”
—Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
“Lou Sullivan has always believed that addressing the health
requirements of the country’s neediest—its minorities and poor—will
bring the greatest benefit to society as a whole. That was the theme of
his tenure as secretary, and that has been the impact of the medical
school he founded. In this book he writes with clarity, passion, and
humor about the life he has led and the issues that dominate our current
health care debates.”
—from the foreword by Ambassador Andrew Young
"One of the first of the civil rights generation to achieve national
distinction, Sullivan is an engaging narrator as well as a passionate
advocate for his beloved Morehouse and a variety of public health
initiatives, particularly expanding medical education for African
Americans. Sullivan is an outstanding example of a 'Morehouse man' who
has made a difference; this narrative of his life and legacy will
entertain and inspire."
—Library Journal
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780820349381 |
| PRICE | $24.95 (USD) |
