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An entertaining memoir by a prestigious journalist from The New Republic.NOT a former library book. Text is unmarked and pages are tight. The dust jacket has considerable wear to the edges and corners, but is still intact.
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Five Million Words Later: Sixty Years of a Changing America
by Bruce Bliven
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Flu The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic
by Gina Kolata
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A new book with fine text. Some fading to cover spine and bottom edge due to storage.A national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu.When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated forty million people virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the US population with it, 1.5 million Americans would die.In Flu, Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. From Alaska to Norway, from the streets of Hong Kong to the corridors of the White House, Kolata tracks the race to recover the live pathogen and probes the fear that has impelled government policy.A gripping work of science writing, Flu addresses the prospects… Read More
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