(Harkness, 1996)
             Alan Kraut's book, Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health
             Crusader' studies the outbreak of pellagra and the efforts made by Dr.
             Joseph Goldberger to offer correct etiology and cure for the same. What
             began as a medical war against pellagra turned into a personal crusade
             against poverty and political manipulation. Goldberger had never imagined
             that a disease that had become "the scourge of the South" (p. 97) and whose
             correct causes and cure every politician in the country was apparently
             seeking could become a contentious and controversial political issue when
             Kraut draws heavily upon Goldberger's letters to his wife, Mary, histories
             by Elizabeth W. Etheridge and Daphne A. Roe and Goldberger's previous
             published work to convince the reader of the sincerity and selflessness of
             a public health crusader who worked hard for complete eradication of a
             Goldberger's belonged to the group of people who called themselves
             progressives and it was this one belief he shared with his father-in-law as
             Kraut states: "The compassionate and rational approach to public policy
             ...