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Dec 28, 2020 · Author and journalist Lawrence Wright's latest book, The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID (2021) is a comprehensive account of America's pandemic experience through 2020 and early January 2021.
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Jun 7, 2021 · Lawrence Wright’s “The Plague Year” is his testament to the year of Covid in America. The book chronicles what happened when, as he says, “the coronavirus slipped in on cat’s paws.”
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Jun 8, 2021 · THE PLAGUE YEAR AMERICA IN THE TIME OF COVID. by Lawrence Wright ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 8, 2021. Maddening and sobering—as comprehensive an account of the first year of the pandemic as we’ve yet seen.
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.
Jan 2, 2022 · A timely and important book, made so by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, The Plague Year drills deep into the destructive course of the disease at its American apex in 2020. Presenting a broad canvas...
Jun 4, 2021 · Although the decreasing U.S. numbers of cases and deaths reflect encouraging progress, a glance at the news from India or the worldwide numbers – in mid-May, still spiking – makes it clear that...
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 ...
