Black Death at the Golden Gate : the race to save America from the bubonic plague
(2019)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
616.9232/RANDALL,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393609455, 0393609456 :, 0393609456, 9780393609455
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Prologue: Fighting the devil with fire -- Across the sea -- The Nippon Maru -- The imperial city -- Criminal idiocy -- Fault lines -- Quarantine -- Oust the faker -- An infamous compact -- An impossible task -- A most peculiar team -- As soon as possible -- The unpleasant past -- For god's sake send food -- Two percent -- The worst corner of hell -- One of California's adopted sons -- Cast aside -- A hero once more -- Epilogue: how close we came
Traces the massive effort to contain an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900 San Francisco, detailing how the process was complicated by virulent racism, pseudoscience, and political cover-ups