Cover image: Gale Jesi.
Front cover design: © HarperCollins
Within Text
Frontispiece: India. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 1979. Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, University of Texas at Austin.
Page 115, epigraph: From “Gotta Serve Somebody” by Bob Dylan. Copyright © 1979 by Special Rider Music. Reprinted with permission.
Page 157: “Smallpox in the World, 1972: Eradication from Indonesia” from Smallpox and Its Eradication by F. Fenner, D. A. Henderson, I. Arita, Z. Jezek, and I. D. Ladnyi. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1988, p. 529. Courtesy of the World Health Organization.
Page 243: “Key Leadership for the Final Phase” from Smallpox: The Death of a Disease by D. A. Henderson. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2009, p. 173.
Page 286: Modified from “Figure 13.2. The World’s Greatest Exporter of Smallpox” from The Eradication of Smallpox from India by R. N. Basu, Z. Jezek, and N. A. Ward. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1979, p. 299. Courtesy of the World Health Organization.
Page 294: From “Figure 4.14. Smallpox Incidence by Region” from The Eradication of Smallpox from India by R. N. Basu, Z. Jezek, and N. A. Ward. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1979, p. 53. Courtesy of the World Health Organization.
Page 305: Chart re-created from “Figure 5. The Shock” from The Management of Smallpox Eradication in India by Lawrence B. Brilliant. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1985, p. 44.
Page 337, epigraph: From In the First Circle by Alexsandr I. Solzhenitsyn, New York: Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2009.
First Photo Insert
Page 2, bottom photo: “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., University of Michigan, 1962.” “Martin Luther King, Hill Auditorium, November 11, 1962,” Media Resource Center. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.
Page 3, top photo: “Larry arriving on Alcatraz to help deliver the baby Wovoka, 1970.” A still taken from the movie Taking Alcatraz by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry.
Page 3, bottom photo: “Poster for Medicine Ball Caravan, the Warner Bros. movie the Hog Farm appeared in.” Licensed by: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved.
Page 4, top photo: “Larry performing surgery on a local Tibetan, Nepal, 1971.” Photo taken by Ruffin Cooper.
Page 5, top right photo: “Ram Dass and Maharaji, Kainchi, 1971.” Photo taken by Rameshwar Das.
Page 7, bottom photo: “Front of postcard with Maharaji’s prediction.” Photo taken by Balaram Das.
Page 8, top photo: “Hanuman statue at Maharaji’s temple.” Photo taken by the author.
Page 8, middle left photo: “Sixteenth Karmapa, tickling Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, Rumtek, 1974.” Photo taken by the author.
Second Photo Insert
Page 1, top photo: “Nicole Grasset and Larry at WHO meeting, New Delhi, 1974.” Courtesy of the World Health Organization.
Page 1, middle photo: “Dr. Halfdan Mahler, WHO director general, honoring smallpox workers, New Delhi, 1976.” Courtesy of the World Health Organization.
Page 2, top photo: “Doctors R. N. Basu and M. I. D. Sharma with Saiban Bibi, last case of smallpox in India.” Courtesy of the World Health Organization.
Page 2, middle right photo: “Larry receiving award from SEARO regional director Dr. Gunaratne, New Delhi, 1976.” Courtesy of the World Health Organization.
Page 3, bottom left photo: “Tata Hospital doctor with smallpox patient, Tatanagar, 1974.” Courtesy of the World Health Organization.
Page 3, bottom right photo: “Another view of patient in recognition card—he survived.” Courtesy of the World Health Organization.
Page 4, top right photo: “Larry with smallpox-infected child near Tatanagar, 1974.” Photo taken by Nedd Willard.
Page 4, middle left photo: “Smallpox-blinded beggar, Kainchi, 2005.” Photo taken by the author.
Page 4, bottom photo: “Girija with Maharaji and other devotees, including R. P. Vaish, at the home of the Barman family, New Delhi, 1973.” Photo taken by Balaram Das.
Page 5, top left photo: “Smallpox workers enforcing ban on travel outside the city without vaccination, Tatanagar, 1974.” Courtesy of the World Health Organization.
Page 5, bottom photo: “Rahima Banu, last case of killer smallpox, Bhola Island, Bangladesh, 1975.” Photo taken by the author.
Page 6, top photo: “First days at Google as executive director of Google.org, 2006.” Bloomberg/Getty Images.
Page 6, bottom right photo: “Larry using an Apple II computer donated to Seva by Steve Jobs, Kathmandu, 1979 or 1980.” Photo taken by Rameshwar Das, 1979.
Page 7, middle photo: “With President Barack Obama, at meeting about Ebola, Roosevelt Room, White House, 2015.” Photo taken by a White House photographer.
Page 8, top left photo: “Iris Brilliant, age three, in California.” Photo taken by the author.
Page 8, top right photo: “Maharaji in one of the last photos taken of him, probably in late August 1973, a few weeks before he died, taken by a Western devotee on Larry’s Rollei camera.” Photo was taken using the author’s camera but could have been taken by any member of the satsang.
Page 8, middle left photo: “Joe Brilliant, age one, in India.” Photo taken by the author.
All other photographs courtesy of the author.
Thanks to the Image Flow gallery in Mill Valley, CA, for providing photographic scanning, prints, and archival services.