David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

at St. Jude’s Children’s Research
Hospital in Memphis, that pioneered
“total therapy,” which is best described
as VAMP squared. Today’s
overwhelmingly successful leukemia
treatments are essentially Pinkel’s
supercharged version of the VAMP
regimen.
12 In his memoir The Theory and
Practice of Hell, Eugen Kogon writes of
what happened at the German
concentration camp Buchenwald
whenever the Nazis came to the leaders
of the camp and demanded that they
select for the gas chambers those from
among their own ranks who were
“socially unfit.” Not to comply meant