{"product_id":"the-great-influenza-the-story-of-the-deadliest-pandemic-in-history-paperback","title":"The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn M. Barry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.\"\u003cb\u003e--Bill Gates\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Influenza\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn M. Barry\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four previous books: \u003ci\u003eRising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed Amer­ica; Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports; The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer \u003c\/i\u003e(cowritten with Steven Rosenberg); and \u003ci\u003eThe Ambition and the Power: A True Story of Washington. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in New Orleans and Wash­ington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.19 x 8.5 x 5.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978817372461,"sku":"9780143036494","price":20.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/SE80VzdPcXBkZ2JCQ2lpY2J1eUkyQT09.webp?v=1775810468","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-great-influenza-the-story-of-the-deadliest-pandemic-in-history-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}