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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

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Full Title

Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

Author(s)

David K. Randall

Edition
ISBN

9780393609462, 9780393358155, 9780393609455

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

“A mash-up of Erik Larson and Richard Preston.” —Tina Jordan, New York Times Book Review podcast On March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown—but when corrupt politicians mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate. Black Death at the Golden Gate is a spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress.