Bio
Todd Tucker attended the University of Notre Dame on a full scholarship. Upon graduating with a degree in history, he volunteered for the Navy’s demanding Nuclear Propulsion Program, eventually completing six patrols onboard the Trident Submarine the USS Alabama. With the Cold War safely won, Tucker returned to Indiana with his family in 1995 to begin a career in writing.
Tucker’s writing has appeared in a number of national magazines, including The Rotarian, Inside Sports, Historic Traveler, and TWA Ambassador. His first book, Notre Dame Game Day, was published by Diamond Communications in 2000. His second book, Notre Dame vs. the Klan, tells the fascinating story of the 1924 riot between the students of Notre Dame and the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan—it is Loyola Press’s lead title for Fall 2004. Tucker’s third book, The Starvation Experiment, will be published by Free Press in 2006. He can be found on the Web at www.toddtuckerbooks.com.
Project Description
As World War II lurched to a close, Dr. Ancel Keys gathered thirty-six volunteers in his laboratory beneath the bleachers of the University of Minnesota football stadium. Over the next twelve months, Keys starved his volunteers, and nursed them slowly back to health.
Dr. Keys was an enthusiastic atheist, and famous before the study began: he was the inventor and the namesake of the army’s K Ration. The volunteers were all religious pacifists, men who had opted out of the "Good War" because of deeply held spiritual beliefs. All involved would find their beliefs tested and transformed during their hungry year in Minnesota.
In The Starvation Experiment, Todd Tucker tells their story for the first time, a story of extreme danger, sacrifice, and noble intentions on all sides.
