THE DIFFICULT ART OF GIVING

by Wilder Penfield ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 15, 1967

The best philanthropy involves a search for cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source,"" said John D. Rockefeller. This book follows one of the early ""Giants of Giving"" employed by the Rockefeller Foundation--Alan Gregg--in an exhaustive and often enlightening way. Gregg led a strategic life; strategy involves ""The art of knowing when, and on what, you will engage your life, ""his sometimes 'too friendly biographer quotes. His subject began his tenure with the Foundation in Brazil where he ferreted out hookworm carriers and cured them, and then went on to become a force for international enlightenment in medicine and psychiatry. His wholesome beginnings, schooling, marriage and career are well-detailed and a good, if unshaded, case is built up around this far-reaching and effective man. Biographical sketches of satellite greats and of Alan Gregg's own writings attend. Interesting.

Pub Date: June 15, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Little, Brown

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1967

Categories: NONFICTION