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#1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history." --Bill Gates Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale.-- Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart. At the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.

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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100143036491

ISBN-139780143036494

eBay Product ID (ePID)46955556

Product Key Features

Book TitleGreat Influenza : the Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, The Great Influenza : The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

Edition2

IllustratorYes

AuthorJohn M. Barry

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

FeaturesRevised

TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Diseases / Contagious, Infectious Diseases, History, Epidemiology

Publication Year2005

GenreScience, Health & Fitness, Medical, History

Number of Pages576 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length8.4in.

Item Height1.2in.

Item Width5.5in.

Item Weight18.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Age Range18-Up

Lc Classification NumberRc150.4.B37 2005

Grade fromTwelfth Grade

Grade toUp

Edition DescriptionRevised Edition

ReviewsMonumental... powerfully intelligent... not just a masterful narrative... but also an authoritative and disturbing morality tale. ( Chicago Tribune ) Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject. ( The New York Times Book Review )

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Table of ContentPrologue Part I: The Warriors Part II: The Swarm Part III: The Tinderbox Part IV: It Begins Part V: Explosion Part VI: The Pestilence Part VII: The Race Part VIII: The Tolling Of The Bell Part IX: Lingerer Part X: Endgame Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Target AudienceTrade

Lccn2006-273207

Dewey Decimal614.5/1809041

Dewey Edition22