The Great Influenza Condition:Good They can be our parents

They can be our parents or partners

Kostova rations her thrills very carefully so that we jump out of our chair at quite slight surprises

unexpected courage

Yergin takes us into the decisions that are shaping our future

and of the historian’s craft

The Great Influenza Condition:Good They can be our parentsIn the winter of 1918, at the height of WWI, historys most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic