In the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, 1959, a playground confrontation leaves two white youths bludgeoned to death by a gang of Puerto Rican kids. Sixteen-year-old Salvador Agron, who wore a red-lined satin cape, was charged with the murders, though no traces of blood were found on his dagger. At seventeen, Agron was the youngest person ever to be sentenced to death in the electric chair. After nearly two years in the Death House at Sing Sing Prison, a group of prominent citizens, including Eleanor Roosevelt and the governor of Puerto Rico, convinced Governor Rockefeller to commute Agron's...
In the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, 1959, a playground confrontation leaves two white youths bludgeoned to death by a gang of Puerto Rican kids. Si...
A shocking look at the link between sugar, inflammation, and a host of preventable chronic diseases--perfect for fans of bestselling author Gary Taubes' The Case Against Sugar--from leading nerve surgeon Dr. Richard Jacoby.
What Grain Brain did for wheat, this book by a leading peripheral nerve surgeon now does for sugar, revealing how it causes crippling nerve damage throughout the body--in our feet, organs, and brain--why sugar and carbohydrates are harmful to the body's nerves, and how eliminating them can mitigate and even reverse the...
A shocking look at the link between sugar, inflammation, and a host of preventable chronic diseases--perfect for fans of bestselling author...
