Life During a Golden Age of Peptide Chemistry by R. Bruce Merrifield, American Chemical Society, ISBN 0-8412-1842-0. This is an account of the invention of solid phase organic synthesis and the first synthesis of an enzyme for which Bruce Merrifield received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1984. This is a remarkable story of the efforts of one man working with very meager resources who invented a technique that has been essential for the current explosion in knowledge about molecular biology.
Health Care and a Free Society by Matthew J. Glavin, Impri-mis, Vol. 22, November 1993 available from Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI 49242. An excellent account of socialism in medicine. Did you know that in Canada "for heart surgery, you have a better chance of dying on the waiting list than you do of dying on the operating table?''See also, on the same subject, Pillars by John F. Perry, November 1993, How Government Caused High Health Care Costs, available from Pillars, P.O. Box 263, Mill Hall, PA 17751.
Notes 1992 to 1993 by H. F. Langenberg available from Smith, Moore & Company, 400 Locust Street, St. Louis, MO 63102. This is 112 pages of excellently presented economic data about the United States and our government. Read it and weep.
Washington Legal Foundation Legal Studies Division Publications Catalog available from Washington Legal Foundation, 2009 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20036.The summaries in these 51 pages are enlightening and provide valuable sources. WLF is a pro-free enterprise public interest law and policy center.
