The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
John M. Barry • 2004
Devastation Rating
pandemic history medicine America
Our Take
Barry's history of the 1918 influenza that killed fifty million people is also a history of American public health, medical science, and wartime propaganda. The decision to suppress news of the pandemic to maintain morale killed more people than the virus alone could have. A book that reads like prophecy and arrived in paperback just in time to be ignored again.
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