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Jun 1, 2017 · Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. Pale Rider. : Laura Spinney. Random House, Jun 1, 2017 - History - 352 pages. Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer – and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic. 'Both a saga of tragedies and a ...
Jun 1, 2017 · 276 reviews 102 followers. January 13, 2018. Pale Rider is a book that covers a topic that has emerged from our collective memory of WWI over the last 20 years or so. Although the flu pandemic of 1918 killed far more people than the war it is only recently that it has been talked about, written about and analyzed.
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Jan 12, 2023 · It also created the true "lost generation." Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology and economics, Pale Rider masterfully recounts the little-known catastrophe that forever changed humanity"--Amazon Originally published in the UK in 2017 Includes bibliographical resources (pages 298-317) and index
Jun 23, 2020 · It’s a timely read for 2020, of course. And Spinney talks about everything from how the flu started and traveled, to how it changed art, literature, and culture. All packed in under 350 pages. Given its brevity, Pale Rider is not a deep dive on any one topic. It’s more broad and shallow, while still retaining considerable intriguing details.
Sep 12, 2017 · Pale Rider. : In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska, and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus -- one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on twentieth-century history. The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time.
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- PublicAffairs, 2017
Learn from 2,411 book reviews of Pale Rider, by Laura Spinney. With recommendations from world experts and thousands of smart readers.
This book, Laura Spinney’s Pale Rider, is a recent offering in the pandemic literature that has become popular in the past twenty years. It focuses on the only known pathogen likely to create a future pandemic, the influenza virus, through its greatest past outbreak, the Spanish Flu of 1918. I read books like these partially for
