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

She left us destitute and, as we
might,
Trooping together.
4 Or, as the English essayist Thomas
De Quincey famously put it: “It is, or it
is not, according to the nature of men, an
advantage to be orphaned at an early
age.”
5 If you want to understand the full
scientific context of the fight against
leukemia, there is no better source than
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize–
winning The Emperor of All Maladies:
A Biography of Cancer. Mukherjee has
a full chapter on the war on leukemia. It
is well worth reading.
6 In the 1960s, the daughter of the