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Albion College - WINTER 2011 JANUARY | ||
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History (Reprint Edition) by Molly Caldwell Crosby Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-10: 0-425-21775-2 / 0425217752 ISBN-13: 978-0-425-21775-7 / 9780425217757 In this national-bestselling account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors,"*-and moving on to today's strain of the killer virus. Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, |