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Simon & Schuster 9781416563327

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of almost one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of African Americans north, and transformed American society and politics forever.The flood brought with it a human storm: white and black collided, honor and money collided, regional and national powers collided. New Orleanss elite used their power to divert the flood to those without political connections, power, or wealth, while causing Black sharecroppers to abandon their land to flee up north. The states were unprepared for this disaster and failed to support the Black community. The racial divides only widened when a white officer killed a Black man for refusing to return to work on levee repairs after a sleepless night of work.In the powerful prose of Rising Tide, John M. Barry removes any remaining veil that there had been equality in the South. This flood not only left millions of people ruined, but further emphasized the racial inequality that have continued even to this day.

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LA GRAN GRIPE (EBOOK)

John M. Barry

CAPITAN SWING 9788412232417

El arma más fuerte contra la pandemia es la verdad. He aquí el relato definitivo de la epidemia de gripe de 1918.Magistral en su amplitud de perspectiva y profundidad de investigación, La gran gripe nos proporciona un modelo preciso y esclarecedor ahora que nos enfrentamos a nuevas pandemias.Como concluye Barry: "La ultima leccion de 1918, una simple pero la mas dificil de ejecutar, es que los que tienen autoridad deben conservar la confianza del publico. La forma de hacerlo es no distorsionar nada, no tratar de poner la mejor cara, tratar de no manipular a nadie. Lincoln lo dijo el primero y lo dijo mejor. Un lider debe hacer concreto cualquier horror que exista. Solo entonces la gente podra desarmarlo".En el apogeo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, el virus de la gripe mas letal de la historia estallo en un campamento del Ejercito estadounidense en Kansas, se traslado al este con las tropas, luego exploto y mato a unos cien millones de personas en todo el mundo. Mato a mas personas en veinticuatro meses que lo que el sida ha asesinado en veinticuatro años, mas en un año que la gente muerta por la peste negra en un siglo. Pero esto no era la Edad Media, y 1918 marco la primera colision de la ciencia y la enfermedad epidemica.La gran gripe es, en ultima instancia, una historia de triunfo en medio de la tragedia.

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LA GRAN GRIPE

John M. Barry

Capitán Swing Libros 9788412197976

El arma más fuerte contra la pandemia es la verdad. He aquí el relato definitivo de la epidemia de gripe de 1918. Magistral en su amplitud de perspectiva y profundidad de investigación, La gran gripe nos proporciona un modelo preciso y esclarecedor ahora que nos enfrentamos a nuevas pandemias. Como concluye Barry: "La ultima leccion de 1918, una simple pero la mas dificil de ejecutar, es que los que tienen autoridad deben conservar la confianza del publico. La forma de hacerlo es no distorsionar nada, no tratar de poner la mejor cara, tratar de no manipular a nadie. Lincoln lo dijo el primero y lo dijo mejor. Un lider debe hacer concreto cualquier horror que exista. Solo entonces la gente podra desarmarlo". En el apogeo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, el virus de la gripe mas letal de la historia estallo en un campamento del Ejercito estadounidense en Kansas, se traslado al este con las tropas, luego exploto y mato a unos cien millones de personas en todo el mundo. Mato a mas personas en veinticuatro meses que lo que el sida ha asesinado en veinticuatro años, mas en un año que la gente muerta por la peste negra en un siglo. Pero esto no era la Edad Media, y 1918 marco la primera colision de la ciencia y la enfermedad epidemica. La gran gripe es, en ultima instancia, una histori

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THE GREAT INFLUENZA (EBOOK)

John M. Barry

Viking Books for Young Readers 9780593404706

The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, adapted for young readers from the #1 New York Times bestseller.At the height of World War I, historys most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, and then exploded worldwide, killing as many as 100 million people. It killed more in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. It killed many more people than COVID-19, especially those who were young and otherwise healthy.This book, adapted from the #1 New York Times bestseller first published in 2004, shows young readers how this global tragedy came to pass; how science, war, and public policy collided; and how we might be able to prevent it from happening again. Impeccably researched and engrossingly told, The Great Influenza provides young readers with historical and scientific context for epidemics that remains all too relevant today.

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ROGER WILLIAMS AND THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN SOUL (EBOOK)

John M. Barry

Penguin Books 9781101554265

A revelatory look at the separation of church and state in Americafrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Great InfluenzaFor four hundred years, Americans have fought over the proper relationships between church and state and between a free individual and the state. This is the story of the first battle in that war of ideas, a battle that led to the writing of the First Amendment and that continues to define the issue of the separation of church and state today. It began with religious persecution and ended in revolution, and along the way it defined the nature of America and of individual liberty. Acclaimed historian John M. Barry explores the development of these fundamental ideas through the story of Roger Williams, who was the first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, and who created in America the first government and society on earth informed by those beliefs. This book is essential to understanding the continuing debate over the role of religion and political power in modern life.

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THE GREAT INFLUENZA (EBOOK)

John M. Barry

Penguin Books 9781101200971

#1 New York Times bestsellerBarry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.Bill Gates"Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the publics trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, historys most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.

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