The memoir of immunologist and 1980 Nobel prize winner Benacerraf. Born in 1920 to a family of Jewish textile importers in Caracas, Venezuela, he moved to Paris at the age of five. He discusses his years studying at the LycTe Janson and the period of the Nazi invasion of France which led the family to flee back to the Americas where he found himself studying medicine in the United States. His years at Harvard, NYU, and the National Institute of Health are examined, as is his time as the chief executive officer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.