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THE PLAGUE YEAR - LAWRENCE WRIGHT KARTONIERT (TB)

'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' New York Times Book Review'A devastating
analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The ObserverJust as
Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first
devastating event  9 11  so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second. The
story starts with the initial moments of Covid's appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph
Biden's inauguration in an America ravaged by well over 400 000 deaths - a mortality already
some ten times worse than US combat deaths in the entire Vietnam War. This is an anguished 
furious memorial to a year in which all of America's great strengths - its scientific knowledge
its great civic and intellectual institutions  its spirit of voluntarism and community - were
brought low  not by a terrifying new illness alone  but by political incompetence and cynicism
on a scale for which there has been no precedent. With insight  sympathy  clarity and rage  The
Plague Year allows the reader to see the unfolding of this great tragedy  talking with
individuals on the front line  bringing together many moving and surprising stories and
painting a devastating picture of a country literally and fatally misled. 'Maddening and
sobering - as comprehensive an account of the first year of the pandemic as we've yet seen'
Kirkus

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