LW is first class on catastrophic events – his book on 9/11 won a Pulitzer. Now he shows how political incompetence and cynicism caused mortality ten times greater than US combat deaths in Vietnam. Meticulously researched, we are in reliable hands here.
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
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Edition:Hardback978024153044308/06/2021
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