{"product_id":"lawrence-wright-the-plague-year-2021-hardback","title":"Lawrence Wright: The Plague Year [2021] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust as Lawrence Wright's \u003ci\u003eThe Looming Tower \u003c\/i\u003ebecame the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9\/11, so \u003ci\u003eThe Plague Year\u003c\/i\u003e will become the defining account of the second. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story starts with the initial moments of Covid's appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph Biden's inauguration in an America ravaged by well over 400,000 deaths - a mortality already some ten times worse than US combat deaths in the entire Vietnam War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an anguished, furious memorial to a year in which all of America's great strengths - its scientific knowledge, its great civic and intellectual institutions, its spirit of voluntarism and community - were brought low, not by a terrifying new illness alone, but by political incompetence and cynicism on a scale for which there has been no precedent. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith insight, sympathy, clarity and rage, \u003ci\u003eThe Plague Year \u003c\/i\u003eallows the reader to see the unfolding of this great tragedy, talking with individuals on the front line, bringing together many moving and surprising stories and painting a devastating picture of a country literally and fatally misled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Maddening and sobering - as comprehensive an account of the first year of the pandemic as we've yet seen' \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wright, Lawrence","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53163074322771,"sku":"XV80241530443","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":53169896882515,"sku":"9780241530443","price":26.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/wright-lawrence-lawrence-wright-the-plague-year-2021-hardback-1225015535.jpg?v=1772669710","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/lawrence-wright-the-plague-year-2021-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}