”A well-written and extensively researched book, One Blood is replete with new and exciting insights about Drew and the African American experience and should interest both the specialist and general reader.” — Journal of Southwest Georgia History
“Provocative and humbling social history.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“With energy, enthusiasm, and remarkable creativity and insight, Spencie Love has written a work that goes far beyond examining in detail how Drew died and how the legend grew. She has tried to penetrate through the many layers of mistrust, fear, anger, and confusion that have evolved between the races in American history and elucidate the larger human truths in that history.” — John Hope Franklin, from the Foreword
“One Blood will rank alongside the seminal writings of William E. B. DuBois, James Baldwin, E. Franklin Frazier, Ralph Ellison, and John Hope Franklin. . . . With due respect to prior research efforts on the life and post mortem of Charles Drew, this work is the most thorough, penetrating, and revealing to date.” — Journal of the American Medical Association
“One Blood is much more than a biography of Charles Drew. Through extensive research and interviews, Love has provided an excellent analysis of the recent history of black medical care in America. Highly recommended for academic and public libraries.” — Library Journal
“With skillful hands, Spencie Love weaves together an array of interdisciplinary evidence and theory to produce an intriguing meditation on the meaning of myth and the role it plays in revealing and perpetuating deeper truths.” — Civilization
“Fascinating. . . . The result of Love’s effort is an object lesson in the nature of historical facts and in the ways popular perceptions color historical understandings. . . . The book is well worth the read.” — Journal of American History
“Spencie Love has written a moving and important book on race relations in America. . . . Dr. Drew, in life and death, also bore witness to a more humane and, the author hopes, a more powerful truth: that in the end all of us are truly of 'one blood.' Her superb book may carry us a step or two closer to a recognition of that indisputable fact.” — Charles B. Dew, New York Times Book Review
“[Love] lets the facts spoil a good story in order to tell a much better one.” — Washington Post
“This extremely interesting book tells the story of Drew, the African American medical scientist who developed the means of giving blood transfusions. . . . This book will interest southern historians, historians of the South, and medical historians, as well as a wide variety of readers.” — CHOICE
