The story of krebiozen, a fraudulent cancer cure, and the frenzy it wrought through the University of Illinois in the 1950s.

• Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2024. The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine. University of Illinois Press.
• David F. Labaree. 2017. A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education. University of Chicago Press.
• Julie Schumacher. 2024. The English Experience. Penguin Random House.
• Julie Schumacher. 2019. The Shakespeare Requirement. Penguin Random House.
• Julie Schumacher. 2015. Dear Committee Members. Penguin Random House.

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