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Amazon Editors’ “Best Books of the Month” Pick for August in History and Nonfiction“It doesn’t take an acute interest in the human heart to be hooked after only a few pages of Ticker. And…how’s this for a reason to read it: heart disease, Swartz notes early on, is responsible for the largest number of deaths in the U.S. and worldwide.” -Vanity Fair“Doctors and researchers have long recognized the need for an artificial organ, or . . . a machine of some kind that can assist a diseased heart until a transplant candidate can be found. The Holy Grail is a device that would make transplants altogether unnecessary. The search for that grail has been, as Mimi Swartz shows in her fascinating book, as complicated as the essential organ itself. Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart tells a story as big as Texas. . ." -The Wall Street Journal“A developing story about. . . innovation, daring, perceived double-crosses, competition and conflict. . . Ticker beats at an accelerated rate. . . Writer Jane Mayer compared it to The Right Stuff, with which it shares some commonalities: the tension of daredevilry in the name of research and development, and multiple characters who are brilliant, eccentric and driven.” -The Houston Chronicle“In bringing to life more than 70 years of medical history, Swartz often achieves a novelist’s level of telling detail, the kind that can only result from determined, painstaking reporting.. . Ticker makes achieving a truly viable version [of an artificial heart] . . . seem not just possible, but inevitable.”-The Texas Observer“Fast paced and meticulously researched.” -Houston CityBook“A frequently hypnotic story. . . of the nexus between talent, institutional support, experimentation and money.”-Austin American-Statesman“[A] pacy, blow-by-blow account of the search for a viable artificial heart. . . Swartz offers a vivid gallery of the medical pioneers who have jostled for the prize.”-Nature.com“Ticker is beautifully and ingeniously constructed, flowing like a fast-paced science-fiction novel, engendering wide-eyed wonder at a remarkable, smart, compelling, and very human story at the busy intersection of money, politics, law, science, medicine, ethics, and philosophy.”-Lone Star Literary Review“A riveting medical thriller…Told in an appropriately over-the-top style, this is a quintessentially Texas story: sprawling, unpredictable, and teeming with risk and opportunity.” -Publishers Weekly“Even casually interested readers will become fascinated by Swartz's vivid depiction of Frazier at work in the operating room…Swartz is a witty, savvy, seasoned journalist, and she offers a welcome history of significant medical advances."-Kirkus Reviews“Smart, compelling, and completely engaging, Ticker is a story about science, personality, innovation, and obsession, all in pursuit of a staggering accomplishment, the creation of an artificial heart. Mimi Swartz drives the narrative with great style and deep reporting; it’s a book anyone with a heart will love.” -Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend and The Orchid Thief “A remarkable journey through the harrowing world of heart surgery, as a brilliantly gifted and eccentric team of doctors work to develop a complete artificial heart, to save the thousands of patients a year whose hearts are failing.” -Bryan Burrough, author of Public Enemies, The Big Rich and Barbarians at the Gate “Ticker is like a medical version of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Swartz takes you into the operating theater with some of the most brilliant, ingenious and driven heart specialists in the world. It's a book full of memorable characters grappling with life-threatening crises, which is both illuminating about modern medicine, and also just a wonderful read.” -Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money "Ticker is a page-turner, a mind-expander, a heart-pounder. Swartz unveils a wild story of medical innovation with the keen eye of a storyteller." -David Eagleman, Stanford University neuroscientist and internationally bestselling author of The Brain and Incognito “A fast paced, utterly riveting tale of the decades of effort that have gone into developing an artificial heart. The characters, many of whom dedicated their lives to this quest, are captivating, and their rivalries are the stuff of legend.” -Bethany McLean, co-author of All the Devils Are Here and The Smartest Guys in the Room “A thrilling and affecting account of a modern medical miracle. Ticker is not only an inspiring tale of persistence, imagination, and sacrifice, it’s also a joy to read.” -Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Looming Tower and God Save Texas “Who knew that the story of the artificial heart was such a rip-roaring one, with one larger-than-life character after another, and plot twists galore? In Ticker, Mimi Swartz has told that story with verve and elegance, and brought those characters to vivid life. A wonderful work of nonfiction by a wonderful nonfiction writer.” -Joe Nocera, Bloomberg News columnist and author of Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA “An exciting, propulsive, and at times surprisingly tender account of the swashbuckling surgeons and inventive geniuses who achieved one of the greatest medical breakthroughs—the development of the artificial heart. Mimi Swartz has done an outstanding job, and uncovered the human story behind the triumph of technology.” -Jennet Conant, New York Times bestselling author of Tuxedo Park and 109 East Palace
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About the Author
Mimi Swartz is a long-time executive editor at Texas Monthly, and a two-time National Magazine Award winner and a four time finalist. The coauthor of the national bestseller Power Failure, with Sherron Watkins, about the failures at Enron, her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Esquire, Slate, and her op-ed pieces appear regularly in the New York Times.
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Product details
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Crown; 1 edition (August 7, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780804138000
ISBN-13: 978-0804138000
ASIN: 0804138001
Product Dimensions:
6.3 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
46 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#116,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
First, there are many inaccuracies in this book. I applaud her effort, but she has not delivered. She does not treat her subjects even handedly. She fails to appreciate how success and achievement are the result of drive and determination--taking rather cheap shots at Michael Debakey. More concerning, her writing lacks objectivity. The writing style is more like a novel, which seems to have Texas-sized exaggerations and outright confabulations. Within the first 50 pages of the book, she states that the first transplant was in 1969-it was 1967. Further, for much of the information that her book contains which is not detailed, she does not cite sources. Having worked, trained, and practiced at the TMC, she lacks the medical background and understanding to deride the very approach she feigns. Hearts by Thomas Thompson is a much better book.
I've read many books (for laypeople) regarding the topic of heart transplantation and the quest for the artificial heart involving the surgeons in Houston, but this book took decades of details and made it an informative yet enjoyable read. I felt like I went along for the ride right along with them. It's impossible to truly understand and appreciate the level of dedication (and skill) these pioneers maintained to the bitter end. I plan to order copies for family members!
Enjoyed reading this book. Well written and insightful to the layperson. Amazing view into the lives/times of three great clinicians of our time - DeBakey, Cooley and Frazier.Wish I could have given it one more star. I felt it was too focused on the Texas Heart Institute; understandable considering the author and the subjects were all Texas based. There is a lot of stuff going on beyond Texas, and missing that presents a somewhat one sided perspective of the artificial heart space.
Most of the action in Ticker takes place in Houston, Texas. Artificial heart research began there in the 1960s. The 60s were a tumultuous decade, but it was also a can-do time in American history and the public perception was that the artificial heart was destined to become another American success story. Simultaneously, Americans were making great accomplishments in outer space travel. The national media wrote features about the leading heart surgeons and made them celebrities. They were compared to NASA’s first astronaut team. Unfortunately, the advances in artificial heart research proved to be modest at best. Creating a viable mechanical heart pump, to replace the real thing, is multiple times more difficult than getting a man to the lunar surface.Considering the technical subject matter, Ticker is a visceral read. The first half, profiles the famous researchers DeBakey and Cooley. They were super-sized intellects with egos to match. The earliest artificial hearts are described as large and somewhat cumbersome and the implantation of them in animals and people bordered on the inhumane. These chapters are intriguing and real page turners.A presence throughout Ticker is noted heart surgeon, Dr. O.H. “Bud†Frazier. His first-person accounts throughout the book are an invaluable oral history of artificial heart research from its very beginnings to the present day. Frazier comes off as a well-grounded person. He’s a brilliant scientist, a workaholic and a bit of an eccentric. He provided a comforting presence because, frankly, many of the patient’s stories in Ticker are quite grim.The second half of the book takes place much closer to the present day and we learn that artificial heart R & D has stalled somewhat, due in part to more restrictive government regulations on testing in human beings. The story shifts to an uncelebrated engineer, who lives half way around the globe. He comes up with an ingenious idea for a pumping system and subsequently relocates to Houston. He and his colleagues lobby a local, celebrity entrepreneur and his wife, to donate a large amount money for continuing research. These later chapters are well written and researched but unfortunately the subjects and the subject matter is just not as engrossing as what proceeded them.Ticker is solid history for lay readers with equals parts of humanity and science.
This is a really hack job, and more of a biography of Bud , who appears to be her close friend. The "Swartz factoids" mentioned, along with a raft of others in her book may seem at odds with history and memory to me.She has many, many facts wrong, and in many cases has lied about some of her sources. Too bad. Could have been a good book.
I guess this is simply one doctor’s journey towards creating an artificial heart, but it seemed like a promise of more. I read an excerpt from a magazine that pulled me into one man’s story. It was written like a novel, and I thought the patient was going to get some miraculous happy ending. Instead, he was one of many patients that tried an artificial heart-like device and passed away. I guess that’s life/science, but they open the book with that story and almost never mention that patient again, and barely provide any more to the story other than this Dr tried to save him at one point. I almost feel like I have to spoil the “ending†because essentially there is none. Basically their best hope is still in development and testing. If it ends up being the miracle invention they want, they’ll have to add to this book and properly finish it. This was an interesting read, but I didn’t like how the book was constructed.
The author is from Huston and the book tends to make more of the Texas importance in heart replacement. Still a nice review of the work of surgeons in their attempts to find a solution to the failing heart. Fair report on the Debakey/Cooley todo.
Reads like an adventure novel. Ms. Swartz knows her stuff and all the players. A sober look at mans attempt to enter the “bionic†age.
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