An Insider's Plague Year
Author | : Peter Doherty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-08-03 |
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ISBN | : 9780522877519 |
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Author | : Peter Doherty |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 2021-08-03 |
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ISBN | : 9780522877519 |
Author | : Lloyd Constantine |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1620872005 |
An intimate account of the Spitzer administration, one man's political downfall, and the enduring friendship between two complex...
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Great Plague, London, England, 1664-1666 |
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Author | : Michael Estok |
Publisher | : Arsenal Pulp PressLtd |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Canadian poetry |
ISBN | : 9780889782181 |
Author | : Jeremy Farrar |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2021-07-22 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1782839100 |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST POLITICS BOOK OF THE YEAR A TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *Revised and updated edition with new chapter reflecting on the impact of Covid-19 two years on, and what come next* Did the UK government really 'follow the science' throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, as it claims? As head of the Wellcome Trust, Jeremy Farrar was one of the first people in the world to hear about a mysterious new disease in China - and to learn it could readily spread between people. A member of the SAGE emergency committee, Farrar was a key figure in both the UK and the World Health Organization at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic amid great uncertainty, fast-moving situations and missed opportunities. Spike is his widely acclaimed inside story. His account casts light on the UK government's claims to be 'following the science' and is informed not just by Farrar's views but by interviews with other top scientists and political figures.
Author | : Giulia Calvi |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520057999 |
"A dramatic and highly interesting story--one that brings to life the complexities of plague and of piety."--Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9789355274830 |
Journey back in time to the harrowing days of the Great Plague of London in Daniel Defoe's gripping chronicle, ""A Journal of the Plague Year."" Written in the form of a first-person account, this chilling and vivid narrative captures the fear, despair, and resilience of a city in the grip of an unprecedented public health crisis, as experienced by the fictional H.F., who navigates the dangers and moral dilemmas of a society on the brink of collapse. Through meticulous research and a keen eye for detail, Defoe immerses readers in the stark reality of the 17th-century plague, offering a deeply human exploration of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable tragedy. From the eerie stillness of abandoned streets to the heart-wrenching accounts of suffering and loss, ""A Journal of the Plague Year"" stands as a powerful testament to the indomitable resilience of humanity and the enduring power of hope. Experience the haunting, unforgettable world of Defoe's ""A Journal of the Plague Year,"" and bear witness to the courage, compassion, and tenacity of the human spirit in the face of adversity-a timeless story that continues to resonate with readers in a world where pandemics and public health crises are all too familiar.
Author | : Lloyd Constantine |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1620873443 |
The March 10, 2008, disclosure that Governor Eliot Spitzer had patronized prostitutes from the Emperors Club VIP sex ring shocked New Yorkers and his admirers around the world, who had celebrated Spitzer as the "Sheriff of Wall Street" and a likely future U.S. president. Ironically, one man's disillusionment with Spitzer had begun to disappear fifteen hours earlier, when Spitzer confessed what the rest of the world would soon learn in a media storm of unprecedented intensity. For Lloyd Constantine, Spitzer's senior advisor and longtime friend, the confession explained the governor's recently erratic behavior and marked the end of a "plague year," which encompassed the troubled Spitzer administration and its flawed transition to power. Journal of the Plague Year is Constantine's intimate account of the seventeen calamitous months preceding the March 10 revelations and the futile sixty-one-hour battle waged by the author and the governor's wife to persuade Spitzer not to resign but instead to fulfill promises made to the voters who had elected him in a record landslide. The book concludes a month after Spitzer and Constantine resigned, as they confronted their shattered careers. People seeking information about Spitzer and prostitutes will find none here. Instead, they will learn how the Spitzer regime suffered crippling setbacks after the governor declared war with the legislature in his inaugural address, including defeat over the choice of a comptroller, a premature effort to end Republican control of the state senate, capitulation on a mediocre $122 billion budget negotiated behind closed doors, the scandal called "Troopergate," and a controversial plan to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens, which sparked a national debate affecting the 2008 presidential election. Spitzer and his administration got their bearings at the beginning of 2008. However, the March 2008 revelations and Spitzer's refusal to fight for his job quickly ended his short and tragic reign.
Author | : STEVE. ERICKSON |
Publisher | : Zerogram Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781953409102 |
As Jonathan Lethem put, Steve Erickson's journal of the last 18 months of the Trump Presidency "sears the page." Erickson, one of our finest novelists, has long been an astute political observer, and American Stutter, part political declaration, part humorous account of more personal matters, offers a particularly moving reminder of the democratic ideals that we are currently struggling to preserve. Written with wit, eloquence, and a controlled fury as event unfold, Erickson has left us with an essential record of our recent history, a book to be read with our collective breath held.* Steve Erickson is the author of ten novels and two books about American culture. For 12 years he was founding editor of the national literary journal Black Clock. Currently he is the film/television critic for Los Angeles magazine and a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters award, and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement award.
Author | : Lawrence Wright |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0593320735 |
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 origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew well … [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright’s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.” —The New York Times Book Review 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.