Alfalfa to Ivy: Memoir of a Harvard Medical School Dean

Joseph Boyd Martin traces his climb from a Mennonite farm in the village of Duchess, Alberta to Dean of Harvard Medical School in his memoir, Alfalfa to Ivy. Readers are rewarded with an intimate perspective on the academic politics and health care in Canada and the U.S. that Martin is perfectly poised to critique. And it is the human story of Martin's journey from humble origins to worldly esteem that makes this a compelling narrative for non-specialists as well as academics and professionals.