title: One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew
author:  Spencie Love 
description: Spencie Love has written a moving and important book on race relations in America. . . . Dr. Drew, in life and death, also bore witness to a more humane and, the author hopes, a more powerful truth: that in the end all of us are truly of 'one blood.' Her superb book may carry us a step or two closer to a recognition of that indisputable fact.--Charles B. Dew, <i>New York Times Book Review</i><br /><br /><br /><br />In this moving and illuminating book, Spencie Love rummages beneath an American legend to get at the underlying facts, then she rummages beneath the facts to reach a deeper truth. Love sheds light not only on the role of oral history in African-American communities, but on the importance of rumor and myth in human life.--Melissa Fay Greene, author of <i>Praying for Sheetrock</i><br /><br /><br /><br />[Love] lets the facts spoil a good story in order to tell a much better one.--<i>Washington Post</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><i>One Blood</i> will rank alongside the seminal writings of William E. B. DuBois, James Baldwin, E. Franklin Frazier, Ralph Ellison, and John Hope Franklin. . . . With due respect to prior research efforts on the life and post mortem of Charles Drew, this work is the most thorough, penetrating, and revealing to date.--<i>Journal of the American Medical Association</i><br /><br /><br /><br />With skillful hands, Spencie Love weaves together an array of interdisciplinary evidence and theory to produce an intriguing meditation on the meaning of myth and the role it plays in revealing and perpetuating deeper truths.--<i>Civilization</i><br /><br /><br /><br />Provocative and humbling social history.--<i>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i><br /><br /><br /><br />With energy, enthusiasm, and remarkable creativity and insight, Spencie Love has written a work that goes far beyond examining in detail how Drew died and how the legend grew. She has tried to penetrate through the many layers of mistrust, fear, anger, and confusion that have evolved between the races in American history and elucidate the larger human truths in that history.--John Hope Franklin, from the Foreword<br /><br /><br /><br /><i>One Blood</i> is much more than a biography of Charles Drew. Through extensive research and interviews, Love has provided an excellent analysis of the recent history of black medical care in America. Highly recommended for academic and public libraries.--<i>Library Journal</i><br /><br /><br /><br />In <i>One Blood</i>, historian Spencie Love tells the story of the accident, the story of the legend, and the story of Drew's life and times. She tells each story with wisdom and grace.--<i>Washington Post Book World</i><br /><br /><br /><br />A well-written and extensively researched book, <i>One Blood</i> is replete with new and exciting insights about Drew and the African American experience and should interest both the specialist and general reader.--<i>Journal of Southwest Georgia History</i><br /><br /><br /><br />This extremely interesting book tells the story of Drew, the African American medical scientist who developed the means of giving blood transfusions. . . . This book will interest southern historians, historians of the South, and medical historians, as well as a wide variety of readers.--<i>Choice</i><br /><br /><br /><br />By skillfully combining the crafts of the historian, the folklorist, and the mystery writer, Spencie Love, in this absorbing exploration of the construction of a legend, challenges the reader to acknowledge that a story that is false may nonetheless be true.--William E. Leuchtenburg, author of <i>The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932</i><br /><br /><br /><br />This is a thoughtful and articulate examination of the power--and reality--of myth as an engine of history. . . . Without denying the importance of verifiable facts to historical analysis, [Love] persuasively argues that a group's shared memory, even if inaccurate, provides an important guide to the truths of its experience. . . . An illuminating study, not only of black and American history, but of History itself.--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br /><br /><br /><br />Fascinating. . . . The result of Love's effort is an object lesson in the nature of historical facts and in the ways popular perceptions color historical understandings. . . . The book is well worth the read.--<i>Journal of American History</i><br /><br />
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  Intelligent, handsome, and struggling to make his rent,
  
  
  thirty-year-old Drew Morten loses his only meaningful relationship when his
  grandmother
  
  
  dies. A famous television anchor, Claudia Trenton, leaves Drew the legacy of
  
  
  her secret memoir. From the fate of a vanished medieval prince to a top-secret
  
  
  NASA study about a mystifying space object, her unreported discoveries hum
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  But history merges with the present and upends Drew’s life
  
  
  when he has a terrifying revelation. Teaming up with a brilliant woman who
  
  
  receives the same vision and a handsome man whose arrival is either fortuitous
  
  
  or sinister, Drew follows the clues in his grandmother’s memoir and races
  
  
  against time to save the world from an apocalyptic nightmare about to be
  
  
  unleashed in downtown San Francisco.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  As catastrophe looms, so does the question: Who, _or what_ ,
  
  
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