David A. Kessler papers 1950-2000

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David A. Kessler papers 1950-2000

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1796

The papers include speeches, office files, videotapes, and other materials that document Kessler's tenure as commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration, particularly his role in the campaign to regulate nicotine as a controlled substance. The collection also contains interviews of tobacco company executives, government officials, researchers, and other individuals that Kessler conducted in the course of writing his book A Question of Intent.

69 linear feet

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Kessler, David A., 1951-....

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David A. Kessler was born May 31, 1951, in New York City. He graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College in 1973 and received a law degree from the University of Chicago in 1978, an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1979, and an advanced certificate in business from New York University's Graduate School of Business Administration in 1986. Kessler served as special assistant to the president of Montefiore Medical Center (1982-1984) and as medical director of The Hospital of the Albert Einste...