The American Plague - Molly Caldwell Crosby - Livros - Berkley Trade - 9780425217757 - 4 de setembro de 2007
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The American Plague 1 Reprint edition

Molly Caldwell Crosby

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The American Plague 1 Reprint edition

In this national-bestselling account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors,"*-and moving on to today's strain of the 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,"** it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.

Mídia Livros     Paperback Book   (Livro de capa flexível e brochura)
Lançado 4 de setembro de 2007
ISBN13 9780425217757
Editoras Berkley Trade
Páginas 384
Dimensões 142 × 209 × 27 mm   ·   367 g
Idioma English  

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