An American Plague

An American Plague
Author: Jim Murphy
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780395776087


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Recreates the devastation rendered to the city of Philadelphia in 1793 by an incurable disease known as yellow fever, detailing the major social and political events as well as the time's medical beliefs and practices.


An American Plague
Language: en
Pages: 165
Authors: Jim Murphy
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Recreates the devastation rendered to the city of Philadelphia in 1793 by an incurable disease known as yellow fever, detailing the major social and political e
The American Plague
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Molly Caldwell Crosby
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-09-04 - Publisher: Penguin

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In this account, a journalist traces the course of the infectious disease known as yellow fever, “vividly [evoking] the Faulkner-meets-Dawn of the Dead horror
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: David K. Randall
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-07 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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“A mash-up of Erik Larson and Richard Preston.” —Tina Jordan, New York Times Book Review podcast On March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victi
The Plague Year
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Lawrence Wright
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-08 - Publisher: Knopf

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its
The Ten-Cent Plague
Language: en
Pages: 462
Authors: David Hajdu
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-03 - Publisher: Macmillan

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In the years between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s, the popular culture of today was invented in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books.