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By W. Bruce Fye. 489 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. $24.95. ISBN 0-8018-5292-7.

The American College of Cardiology "was at the beginning, of course, a miserable organization but I can well see that perhaps . . . it is headed for better days." That is how Paul Dudley White, the leading academic and clinical cardiologist of his day, described the new organization in 1959. Bruce Fye's American Cardiology is very much a saga of the American College of Cardiology from its origin in 1949 to its current position as the leading educational and political voice of more than 22,000 cardiovascular specialists.

The American College of Cardiology commissioned this work, so it is hardly . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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