Stephen B. Oates is the author of sixteen books, including The Approaching Fury; With Malice Toward None: A
Life of Abraham Lincoln and Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr., the latter two books winning,
respectively, the Christopher Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award. They have been translated into
several languages.
Oates was a consultant and "talking head" in Ken Burns's Civil War series on PBS, and is a recipient
of the Nevins-Freeman Award of the Chicago Civil War Round Table for lifetime achievement in the field of Civil
War studies. A teacher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, he is now writing the concluding book of the
Voices of Storm trilogy, about the years of Reconstruction, 1865-1877.
Review
"Stephen B. Oates recreates the life and world of Lincoln with the skill of a master painter."
--Christian Science Monitor
Submitted by Publishers, July, 2001
Summary
In recent years, there has been an explosion of research on the early
origins of adult health. A growing body of evidence documents that
maternal health before conception, prenatal and perinatal exposures,
and conditions in childhood play critical roles in health over the life
course. Scientific understanding of the multiple and interacting
influences on child health and their role in later health continues to
evolve rapidly, but greater attention to how families shape the
conditions of early life that underlie childhood health is needed. This
volume aims to advance understanding of this topic, with attention to
mechanisms through which health disparities emerge and are sustained
across the lifespan.
