Manny and Frances: An Extraordinary Couple
This book is a timeless tale of an exceptional young couple trying to live a normal life while caught in the cross currents of global events. It is also a history of the dawn of modern medicine and the struggles against infectious diseases at a time when they were the king of killers.
Emanuel B. Schoenbach was bright and extroverted, emanating limitless positive energy. A compassionate doctor and brilliant researcher, he was a pioneer in the field of epidemiology, the development of antibiotics, and early cancer treatments that form the basis of modern medicine as we now know it. Known as "Manny," by the age of 40 he was the author or co-author of 102 papers.
Frances D. Rubens was quiet, grounded, and rational. She was a gifted student, completing high school at the age of 14, and later became an inadvertent pioneer when she graduated first in her class at Boston University Law School at a time when most prestigious law schools did not admit women. She worked as a lawyer but stopped after her first child was born and Manny went into the army. Her intelligence and wisdom was essential to Manny's success and the family's survival.
Manny and Frances were young children during the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918, teenagers and high school sweethearts in New York City during the Great Depression, and young parents during World War II. Then, in 1952, when they finally reached the security of peacetime, tragedy struck with Manny's sudden death, leaving Frances and her three young children to pick up the pieces. "A lovely portrait of an uncommon couple." - Kirkus ReviewsUltimately, Manny and Frances: An Extraordinary Couple is a true story about resilience and hope in the face of adversity. Readers say, "You will not be able to put it down "
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