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JOHN M. BARRY

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PURCHASE THE GREAT INFLUENZA

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PURCHASE ROGER WILLIAMS AND THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN SOUL

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PURCHASE RISING TIDE

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WELCOME

RECENT ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS

The 1918 flu pandemic, a cautionary tale

Interview on CBS Sunday Morning

"The Single Most Important Lesson From the 1918 Influenza"

New York Times op-ed on coronavirus

A Historian’s View of the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Influenza of 1918

Interview with David Remnick for The New Yorker

"Can this virus be contained? Probably not."

Op-ed in The Washington Post on coronavirus



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THE GREAT INFLUENZA

#1 New York Times bestseller

 

"Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune

 

The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive
account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic.

 

Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great
Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the
epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of
1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in
authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort
nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln
said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete.
Only then will people be able to break it apart."  

 

At the height of World War I, history's 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
months than AIDS 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 disease.

 

 

PRAISE


Over a year on The New York Times bestseller list

"Monumental... powerfully intelligent... not just a masterful narrative... but
also an authoritative and disturbing morality tale." —Chicago Tribune 

"Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject." —The New
York Times Book Review

"Hypnotizing, horrifying, energetic, lucid prose..." —Providence Observer

"A sobering account of the 1918 flu epidemic, compelling and timely. —The Boston
Globe

"History brilliantly written... The Great Influenza is a masterpiece." —Baton
Rouge Advocate  


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SELECTED WORKS

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

#1 New York Times bestseller

 

The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive
account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic.

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the
Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of
the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi
flood of 1927.

Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the
Birth of Liberty

A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political
power, and individual rights in America.

Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports

A look at power in all its incarnations, from the strength of a world champion
caliber weightlifter to the power of the Washington press corps.



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