Full name: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

Author: Jim Murphy Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Science, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780395776087 0395776082

1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown... Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on the city's residents, relating the epidemic to the major social and political events of the day and to 18th-century medical beliefs and practices. Drawing on first-hand accounts, Murphy spotlights the heroic role of Philadelphia's free blacks in combating the disease, and the Constitutional crisis that President Washington faced when he was forced to leave the city--and all his papers--while escaping the deadly contagion. The search for the fever's causes and cure, not found for more than a century afterward, provides a suspenseful counterpoint to this riveting true story of a city under siege. Similar books: Blizzard! by Jim Murphy Sudden Sea by R. A. Scotti Written in Bone by Sally M. Walker Cannabis by Martin Booth The Long Road to Gettysburg by Jim Murphy 1434 by Gavin Menzies London Fog by Christine L. Corton The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby The Great Fire by Jim Murphy The Real Benedict Arnold by Jim Murphy Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham The Radium Girls by Kate Moore The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford Quackery by Lydia Kang The Colony by John Tayman The Royal Art of Poison by Eleanor Herman Pandemic 1918 by Catharine Arnold Map of a Nation by Rachel Hewitt