The plague year : America in the time of COVID
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 322 pages : 25 cm.
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Canon City Public Library - NONFICTION | 320 WRI | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-304) and index.
Description
From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic.
Wright takes us inside the CDC, where a first round of faulty test kits lost America precious time . . . inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger’s early alarm about the virus was met with confounding and drastically costly skepticism . . . into a Covid ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from the town of Little Africa, South Carolina . . . into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs . . . into Broadway’s darkened theaters and Austin’s struggling music venues . . . inside the human body, diving deep into the science of how the virus and vaccines function—with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaccination movement. And in this full accounting, Wright makes clear that the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus reveal and embody an America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential.
In turns steely-eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, unexpectedly comical, and always precise, Lawrence Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Wright, L. (2021). The plague year: America in the time of COVID (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wright, Lawrence, 1947-. 2021. The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wright, Lawrence, 1947-. The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Wright, Lawrence. The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
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