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Jun 08, 2021 | ISBN 9780593459430 Pre-Order
Jun 08, 2021 | ISBN 9780593320723 Pre-Order
Jun 08, 2021 | ISBN 9780593320730 Pre-Order
Jun 08, 2021 | 600 Minutes Pre-Order
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Jun 08, 2021 | ISBN 9780593459430
Jun 08, 2021 | ISBN 9780593320723
Jun 08, 2021 | ISBN 9780593320730
Jun 08, 2021 | ISBN 9780593459355
600 Minutes
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, whose best-selling thriller The End of the October all but predicted our current pandemic, comes another momentous account, this time of COVID-19: its origins, its myriad repercussions, and the ongoing fight to contain itBeginning with the absolutely critical first moments of the outbreak in China, and ending with an epilogue on the vaccine rollout and the unprecedented events between the election of Joseph Biden and his inauguration, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year surges forward with essential information–and fascinating historical parallels–examining the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.Wright takes us inside the CDC, where the first round of faulty test kits cost America precious time; inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger’s early alarm about the virus was met with great skepticism; into a COVID ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from Little Africa, South Carolina; into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs; and even inside the human body, diving deep into the science of just how the virus and vaccines function, with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaxxer movement.In turns steely eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, comical, and always precise, 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. His full accounting does honor to the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus, revealing America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential.
LAWRENCE WRIGHT is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a playwright, a screenwriter, and the author of ten books of nonfiction, including The Looming Tower, Going Clear, and God Save Texas, and one previous novel, God’s Favorite. His books have received many honors, including a Pulitzer… More about Lawrence Wright
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