{"product_id":"the-plague-year","title":"The Plague Year","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":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53988481401170,"sku":"9780141998138","price":14.3,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_9b9924bf-a641-4943-bd6f-71d3b418fa43.jpg?v=1783930873","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-plague-year","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}