...story available only to readers of scholarly books and journals. With ''King of Hearts'' (Times Books, $25), G. Wayne Miller has given this great story to the rest of us. Miller, whose five other books include another about surgery, has...

An excerpt from ''King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery'' by G. Wayne Miller, published by Times Books: On the day that some feared he crossed over into madness, the surgeon C. Walton Lillehei...

...Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson and Walt Disney was advertising its new movie "Robin Hood." As described in G. Wayne Miller's 2000 book "King of Hearts," Lewis and his colleagues placed a refrigerated, rubber blanket around the girl...