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The Epidemic
- How Typhoid Devastated an American Town and How the Residents Fought Back
Engelsk Paperback
The Epidemic
- How Typhoid Devastated an American Town and How the Residents Fought Back
Engelsk Paperback

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The dramatic account of a typhoid epidemic in Ithaca, New York, in 1903, and its dark underside—with lessons for today!

The Epidemic tells the story of how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town of Ithaca, New York. Eighty-two people died, including twenty-nine Cornell students. Protected by influential friends, William T. Morris faced no retribution for this outrage. His legacy was a corporation—first known as Associated Gas & Electric Co. and later as General Public Utilities Corp.—that bedeviled America for a century. The Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979 was its most notorious historical event, but hardly its only offense against the public interest.


The Ithaca epidemic came at a time when engineers knew how to prevent typhoid outbreaks but physicians could not yet cure the disease. Both professions were helpless when it came to stopping a corporate executive who placed profit over the public health. Government was a concerned but helpless bystander.


In this emotionally gripping book, David DeKok, a former award-winning investigative reporter and the author of widely praised books on the mine fire that devastated Centralia, Pennsylvania, brings this tragedy home by taking us into the lives of many of those most deeply affected.


For modern-day readers acutely aware of the risk of a devastating global pandemic and of the dangers of unrestrained corporate power, The Epidemic provides a riveting look back at a heretofore little-known, frightening episode in America’s past that seems all too familiar. Written in the tradition of The Devil in the White City, it is an utterly compelling, thoroughly researched work of narrative history with an edge.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9781493069637
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1493069632
Udg. Dato:
1 sep 2022
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
141mm
Højde:
223mm
Forlag:
Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato:
1 sep 2022
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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