A Nurse's Story | Peter Baida Overview

In the following essay, the critic gives an overview of Peter Baida’s work.

After earning a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Pennsylvania, Peter Baida began twenty years of employment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. At the time of his death in 1999, he led the center’s fundraising operations. The business executive wrote Poor Richard’s Legacy: American Business Values from Benjamin Franklin to Donald Trump, an ‘‘ingeniously conceived and brightly executed social history’’ according to Genevieve Stuttaford in Publishers Weekly. The 1990 publication includes figures from as...

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