Read by Scott Brick An epic history of the deadliest plague in human history and how it forever changed American science, politics, and medicine. Unabridged CDs - 18 CDs, 20 hours
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Read by Scott Brick An epic history of the deadliest plague in human history and how it forever changed American science, politics, and medicine. Unabridged CDs - 18 CDs, 20 hours
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This is the best book on the 1918 flu epidemic in the United States.
I found the first 60 pages with the biographies of the scientists involved a bit too slow but once the pandemic began - I couldn't put the book down.
It does not cover the digging up of the bodies in Alaska for comparasons to today's flus but I was mainly interested in the 1918 pandemic
Wugo
Feb 18, 2010
The Great Influenza
Mr. Barry has written an adequate history of the 1918 influenza pandemic He succeeds in making the story gripping by interlarding it with dramatic details and mini-biographies adulating doctors who were involved in some way with research related to influenza..
The book conveys a clear impression of the desperation of the time (as Mr. Barry views it). I would have preferred fewer panegyrics and more statistical information.