Title: Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims Author: Jennifer Vanderbes Jennifer Vanderbes Genre: Non-fiction Non-fiction Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Random House Publishing Group Pages: 432 There was an inevitable, sickening pattern to the distribution of the sedative and putative “wonder drug” thalidomide to an unsuspecting population. Thanks to Jennifer Vanderbes’s Wonder Drug, that inevitability has been deconstructed and explained. With the meticulousness of a Maddow investigation, Vanderbes documents the complacency, the complicity, the collusion, the cover-ups and denials surrounding a drug that was supposed to be a safe sedative and was found...