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'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history'
'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history'
'Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject'
Monumental... powerfully intelligent... not just a masterful narrative... but also an authoritative and disturbing morality tale
'A sobering account of the 1918 flu epidemic, compelling and timely'
'Majestic, spellbinding treatment of a mass killer'
'History brilliantly written... The Great Influenza is a masterpiece'
John M. Barry is the author of four previous books: Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed Amer ica; Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports; The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer (co-written with Steven Rosenberg); and The Ambition and the Power: A True Story of Washington. He lives in New Orleans and Wash ington, D.C.