Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

Randall, David K.

ISBN 10: 0393609456 / ISBN 13: 9780393609455

Edité par W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

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Synopsis :

A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress.

For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on 6 March 1900 would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn't noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown. If the disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicentre of an outbreak that had already claimed ten million lives worldwide. To local press, railroad barons and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivable or inconvenient. As they proceeded to obscure the threat, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save the city and the nation from a gruesome fate.

In the tradition of Erik Larson and Steven Johnson, best-selling author David K. Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blue's race to understand the disease and contain its spread.

À propos de l?auteur: David K. Randall is a senior reporter at Reuters. The New York Times best- selling author of Dreamland and The King and Queen of Malibu, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to ...
Éditeur : W. W. Norton & Company
Date d'édition : 2019
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Very Good