Good People Beget Good People: A Genealogy of the Frist Family [Hardcover]

William H., M.D. Frist (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0742533360 | ISBN-13: 978-0742533363 | Publication Date: November 25, 2003

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• Hardcover: 448 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (November 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0742533360
• ISBN-13: 978-0742533363
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,060,271 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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647 of 653 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Absolute Worst Human Being on the Planet, May 9, 2005

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Proud That I'm Not A Frist "notanmbagraduate" (Philly) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Good People Beget Good People: A Genealogy of the Frist Family (Hardcover)

This is a fascinating study of the extraordinary mix of in-breeding, animal sacrifice, and corruption required to produce the world's worst human being. Coming from a family of mildly despicable cheats, the Frists had a leg up on normal human beings...but it still took an enormous amount of laboratory work and careful training to produce not just a self-involved twit but an unspeakable monster.

This book is Frankenstein of our century, a marvellous account of the line between science and morality, and the "Dr. Frist" character is a chilling reminder of the true evil inherent in all humanity...even if readers will find Dr. Frist himself an impossibly overdrawn character. Surely, no actual human could be so evil. Neverthless, he stands like Shelley's monster as an emblem of the path we as a species must never take.

By damning this "Dr. Frist" character and the bizarre process that created him, this sterling work serves as a moral guide, a hope for the future.

260 of 269 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A monumental bore-a-thon, April 25, 2004

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This review is from: Good People Beget Good People: A Genealogy of the Frist Family (Hardcover)

Really, this has got to rank as one of the worst excuses for biography ever written. So Bill Frist's family is supposedly melanin-free... so what? Is that their sole claim to being "good people"? What else have they done to justify these hundreds of pages of poorly written prose? The only positive benefit of this yawn-inducing snoozathon is that it's a surefire remedy for terminal insomnia. You'll be bored into a coma in no time at all.

105 of 109 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Alternate title: "How a Self-Absorbed Amoral Git Was Born", September 28, 2005

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Rebecca Morn "Technowitch" (Placitas, NM, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good People Beget Good People: A Genealogy of the Frist Family (Hardcover)

Senator Frist is a prime example of what generations of corruption, greed, and aristocratic inbreeding will inevitably produce. Kidnapping and experimental evisceration of cats was just one of his early formative career choices. After making obscene amounts of money with investments in pharmeceutical companies and his own private HMO (which was well noted for its ability to turn a profit, provided the insured could be persuaded not to seek medical coverage of any kind), he did what any talentless plutocrat will do: Move on to politics. There, when he isn't destroying America's democratic republic, he continues to mis-diagnose the brain-dead through video, display a pre-Mandelian view of the transmission of disease (to wit, HIV), and is currently under investigation for insider trading. Indeed, rather than the ironically redundant repetition of "Good People" in the title of this book, "Doctor" Frist would have been more accurate if he'd titled it, "The Aristocrats". (For reference, see the movie of the same name. But not near children. Or when your boss might be watching.)