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The American Plague
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Author : Molly Caldwell Crosby
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-09-04
The American Plague written by Molly Caldwell Crosby and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-04 with History categories.
In this account, a journalist traces the course of the infectious disease known as yellow fever, “vividly [evoking] the Faulkner-meets-Dawn of the Dead horrors” (The New York Times Book Review) of this killer virus. Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined. In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country—and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With “arresting tales of heroism,” (Publishers Weekly) it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
An American Plague
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Author : Jim Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2014-09-30
An American Plague written by Jim Murphy and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
National Book Award Finalist: An account of the disease that ravaged eighteenth-century Philadelphia, written and illustrated for young readers. 1793, Philadelphia: The nation’s capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown… This dramatic narrative describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on the city’s residents, relating the epidemic to the social and political events of the day and eighteenth-century medical beliefs and practices. Drawing on first-hand accounts, Jim Murphy spotlights the heroic role of Philadelphia’s free blacks in combating the disease, and the Constitutional crisis President Washington faced when he was forced to leave the city—and all his papers—to escape the deadly contagion. The search for the fever's causes and cure provides a suspenseful counterpoint to this riveting true story of a city under siege. Winner of multiple awards, this thoroughly researched book offers a look at the conditions of cities at the time of our nation’s birth, and draws timely parallels to modern-day epidemics. “A lavishly illustrated book, containing maps, newspaper columns and period illustrations…unflinchingly presents the horrors of the event as well as its heroes.”—The New York Times “Pair this work with Laurie Halse Anderson’s wonderful novel Fever 1793 and you’ll have students hooked on history.”—School Library Journal “History, science, politics, and public health come together in this dramatic account of the disastrous yellow fever epidemic that hit the nation’s capital more than 200 years ago.”—Booklist
American Plague
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Author : Jim Murphy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
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The American Plague
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Author : Molly Caldwell Crosby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-11-01
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An American Plague
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Author : Jim Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2003
An American Plague written by Jim Murphy and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Recreates the devastation rendered to the city of Philadelphia in 1793 by an incurable disease known as yellow fever, detailing the major social and political events as well as the time's medical beliefs and practices.
An American Plague
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Author : Jim Murphy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-02-17
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An American Plague
Yellow Fever The American Plague
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Author : J. C. Le Hardy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Yellow Fever The American Plague written by J. C. Le Hardy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Yellow fever categories.
The Plague Year
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Author : Lawrence Wright
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-06-08
The Plague Year written by Lawrence Wright and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Political Science categories.
'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' New York Times Book Review 'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The Observer Just as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second. The story starts with the initial moments of Covid's appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph Biden's inauguration in an America ravaged by well over 400,000 deaths - a mortality already some ten times worse than US combat deaths in the entire Vietnam War. This is an anguished, furious memorial to a year in which all of America's great strengths - its scientific knowledge, its great civic and intellectual institutions, its spirit of voluntarism and community - were brought low, not by a terrifying new illness alone, but by political incompetence and cynicism on a scale for which there has been no precedent. With insight, sympathy, clarity and rage, The Plague Year allows the reader to see the unfolding of this great tragedy, talking with individuals on the front line, bringing together many moving and surprising stories and painting a devastating picture of a country literally and fatally misled. 'Maddening and sobering - as comprehensive an account of the first year of the pandemic as we've yet seen' Kirkus
Crime The American Plague
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Author : Edward Amejko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Crime The American Plague written by Edward Amejko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Crime categories.
To End A Plague
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Author : Emily Bass
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-07-06
To End A Plague written by Emily Bass and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Social Science categories.
“Randy Shilts and Laurie Garrett told the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the late 1980s and the early 1990s, respectively. Now journalist-historian-activist Emily Bass tells the story of US engagement in HIV/AIDS control in sub-Saharan Africa. There is far to go on the path, but Bass tells us how far we’ve come.” —Sten H. Vermund, professor and dean, Yale School of Public Health With his 2003 announcement of a program known as PEPFAR, George W. Bush launched an astonishingly successful American war against a global pandemic. PEPFAR played a key role in slashing HIV cases and AIDS deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, leading to the brink of epidemic control. Resilient in the face of flatlined funding and political headwinds, PEPFAR is America’s singular example of how to fight long-term plague—and win. To End a Plague is not merely the definitive history of this extraordinary program; it traces the lives of the activists who first impelled President Bush to take action, and later sought to prevent AIDS deaths at the whims of American politics. Moving from raucous street protests to the marbled halls of Washington and the clinics and homes where Ugandan people living with HIV fight to survive, it reveals an America that was once capable of real and meaningful change—and illuminates imperatives for future pandemic wars. Exhaustively researched and vividly written, this is the true story of an American moonshot.