Epidemic: A Collision Of Power, Privilege, And Public Health - Couverture rigide

Dekok, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0762760087 ISBN 13 : 9780762760084

Editeur : Lyons Press, 2011

Synopsis

The Epidemic tells how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town of Ithaca, N.Y. Eighty-two people died, including 29 Cornell students. Protected by influential friends, William T. Morris faced no retribution for this outrage.

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À propos de l?auteur

David DeKok is a former investigative reporter for The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., where he specialized in coverage of the utility industry for the past dozen years. He won first place reporting awards from The National Press Club, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, and Associated Press Managing Editors of Pennsylvania. His first book, Unseen Danger: A Tragedy of People, Government, and the Centralia Mine Fire, was published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 1986 and was reissued by Globe Pequot Press as Fire Underground.Unseen Danger was reviewed in the Sunday New York Times Book Review of Jan. 4, 1987, and was the subject of a national story by Associated Press.

DeKok appeared on Fresh Air and The Diane Rehm Show to promote his first book. In 2007, he explained the Centralia mine fire in the documentary film, The Town That Was, which screened in competition at the Los Angeles and Philadelphia film festival. In 2009, heappeared at length in Episode 6 of The History Channel's Life After People series discussing Centralia, Pennsylvania.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lyons Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0762760087
• ISBN 13: 9780762760084
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible