Black Death at the Golden Gate
The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
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David K. Randall
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A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress.
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn't noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin - a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong's tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed 10 million lives worldwide.
To local press, railroad barons, and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivable - or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued.
In the tradition of Erik Larson and Steven Johnson, best-selling author David K. Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blue's race to understand the disease and contain its spread - the only hope of saving San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate.
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David Oshinsky, whose last book, Polio: An American Story, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 12-14-16
De: David Oshinsky
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 19 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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In the winter of 1918, 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 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 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 between modern science and epidemic disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book but very disturbing...
- De Tim en 01-15-09
De: John M. Barry
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The American Plague
- The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
- De: Molly Caldwell Crosby
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With "arresting tales of heroism," it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yellow Fever in Memphis
- De Kevin P Key en 04-13-20
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An American Plague
- The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
- De: Jim Murphy
- Narrado por: Pat Bottino
- Duración: 3 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 180
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 135
In An American Plague, Jim Murphy tells the story of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. Bizarre medical practices of the time are discussed, as well as popular historical figures, such as George Washington and Benjamin Rush, who were involved in finding a cure for this horrific outbreak. Pat Bottino's captivating narration adds appeal to this interesting historical tale.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Don't expect technical depth...
- De Ebird en 01-27-06
De: Jim Murphy
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds
- Ebola and the Ravages of History
- De: Paul Farmer
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 22 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it?
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5 out of 5 stars
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CRITICAL LISTENING for 2020!
- De Vin en 11-17-20
De: Paul Farmer
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Asleep
- The Forgotten Epidemic That Became Medicine’s Greatest Mystery
- De: Molly Caldwell Crosby
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 395
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 357
In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived. Asleep, set in 1920s and '30s New York, follows a group of neurologists through hospitals and asylums as they try to solve this epidemic and treat its victims - who learned the worst fate was not dying of it, but surviving it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Scary, and still unsolved, medical mystery
- De joyce en 12-14-14
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Pale Rider
- The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
- De: Laura Spinney
- Narrado por: Paul Hodgson
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 769
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In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus travelled across the globe, exposing mankind's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. As socially significant as both world wars, the Spanish flu dramatically disrupted - and often permanently altered - global politics, race relations, and family structures while spurring innovation in medicine, religion, and the arts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Predilection for Those in the Prime of Life
- De Cynthia en 02-12-18
De: Laura Spinney
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Pox
- An American History
- De: Michael Willrich
- Narrado por: K. Todd Freeman
- Duración: 14 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
At the turn of the last century, a smallpox epidemic swept the United States. The age-old disease spread swiftly through an increasingly interconnected American landscape: from southern plantations to the immigrant neighborhoods of northern cities to far-flung villages on the edges of the American empire. In Pox, historian Michael Willrich offers a gripping chronicle of how the nation's continent-wide fight against smallpox launched one of the most important civil liberties struggles of the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book on smallpox
- De Chris M. White en 09-07-21
De: Michael Willrich
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The Fatal Strain
- On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic
- De: Alan Sipress
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
When avian flu began spreading across Asia in the early 2000s, it reawakened fears that had lain dormant for nearly a century. During the outbreak's deadliest years, Alan Sipress chased the virus as it infiltrated remote jungle villages and teeming cities and saw its mysteries elude the world's top scientists. In The Fatal Strain, Sipress details how socioeconomic and political realities in Asia make it the perfect petri dish in which the fast-mutating strain can become easily communicable among humans.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator comments
- De Don en 01-10-10
De: Alan Sipress
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
- How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
- De: Arthur Allen
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 57
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Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed - refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples - causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Unforgettable book
- De Jean en 09-01-14
De: Arthur Allen
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The Ghost Map
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,004
This is a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It was okay until the end
- De Matthew Groom en 12-04-08
De: Steven Johnson
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The Pandemic Century
- One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
- De: Mark Honigsbaum
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 "parrot fever" pandemic, through the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last one hundred years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pretty good
- De Baz 12345 en 04-03-20
De: Mark Honigsbaum
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The Organ Thieves
- The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
- De: Chip Jones
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a Black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a White businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker’s death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family’s permission or knowledge.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not your story to tell
- De Bianca S en 11-22-20
De: Chip Jones
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Polio
- An American Story
- De: David M. Oshinsky
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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This comprehensive and gripping narrative, which received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history, covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America's relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk's killed-virus vaccine (1954) and Sabin's live-virus vaccine (1961) began to eradicate this dreaded disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Patricia B Tripoli en 07-22-08
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Beating Back the Devil
- De: Maryn McKenna
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 197
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
The universal instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease. These doctors run toward it. They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than 24 hours before they are dispatched. They are told only their country of destination and the epidemic they will tackle when they get there.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Stuff - Only criticism is pacing
- De Tim en 07-23-05
De: Maryn McKenna
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Panama Fever
- De: Matthew Parker
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, William Dufris
- Duración: 17 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
The building of the Panama Canal was one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. A tale of exploration, conquest, money, politics, and medicine, Panama Fever charts the challenges that marked the long, labyrinthine road to the building of the canal. Drawing on a wealth of new materials and sources, Matthew Parker brings to life the men who recognized the impact a canal would have on global politics and economics.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book, marginal narrator
- De CmH - HB, CA en 06-02-08
De: Matthew Parker
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Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses
- From the Plague of Athens to COVID-19
- De: Heather E. Quinlan
- Narrado por: Samara Naeymi
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
It can come in waves - like tidal waves. It changes societies. It disrupts life. It ends lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that knowledge and social cooperation can save lives. Viruses are neither alive nor dead and are the closest thing we have to zombies. Their only known function is to replicate themselves, which can have devastating consequences on their hosts.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Some good info but
- De Dogs Land en 10-23-24
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Flu
- The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
- De: Gina Kolata
- Narrado por: Gina Kolata
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 488
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 227
Feeling feverish, tired, or achy? Listening to Gina Kolata's engrossing account of the 1918 Influenza epidemic is sure to give you the chills. A gripping work of science writing, Flu addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and considers what can be done to prevent it.
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1 out of 5 stars
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overexcited
- De Marilyn en 07-23-03
De: Gina Kolata
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Black Death at the Golden Gate
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- 06-17-20
good book with adjusted audio
very interesting informative, well-written historical novel with good leadership lessons for public health. I slowed the audio to .85x which made the narration sound much more natural. I enjoyed it very much after doing that.
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- A Reader
- 10-30-24
Gripping and unsettling
This nonfiction work reads like a medical thriller, as teams of dedicated doctors race to understand the pathogen killing dozens and then scores of people in 1900-1907 San Francisco. This book came out a year before the Covid pandemic but listeners today will be repeatedly struck by the parallels. Good narration, too.
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- JoAnn
- 06-07-20
Phenomenal History Information
Could not turn this off!! concerned at first about a medical history - this was so well written it was engaging from the first "page". Annoying to have to stop for any reason. Learned so much about San Francisco area. I will surely read it again in future.
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- Allen M. Burgos
- 02-07-23
First time
Never listened to a book through audio. Didn’t think I would have retained the information but I did. Will probably listen to books this way from now on.
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- Steve Schoenig
- 05-31-20
totally relevant in this pandemic age
Super well written. Great history of early 1900's San Francisco and California. Greed and racism made it so hard for scientists to control a plague outbreak. Much like today!!
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- Stephen A. de Jager
- 01-13-24
Fascinating story
Amazing how recently we have had plague in California. Great story of microbiology, infection control and how politics and fake news can frustrate efforts to combat the spread of disease. History repeats itself!
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- JCB
- 10-31-21
A history of Black Death in the U.S.
This was a fascinating book. I couldn't help from drawing a comparison to our modern day pandemic and the politics and racism of those who played
fast and loose with peoples lives. Nothing has changed in over a hundred years. I think this would be a great book for high school students to be required to read. I hope more people will listen to the lessons written down here.
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- TJ
- 11-02-23
Fantastic
A fascinating story with a wonderful narrator. This was my second book by David K. Randall, and it did not disappoint.
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- Steve Adams
- 07-11-19
Plague, Racism, Public Health..a toxic mix.
David Randall's book does an excellent job in giving background on Bubonic plague as an illness that goes back centuries. I'm a registered nurse, so anything dealing with public health is very interesting to me. The book details an outbreak of bubonic plague in turn of the 20th century San Francisco. Doctor's trying to get to the bottom of this outbreak had to contend with racism against Chinese, concerns about loss of money to businesses in San Francisco and California. One of the best medical related books I have read since the Hot Zone and The great INfluenza.(Both very good books also worth your time)
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- Stephanie
- 05-16-20
Plague, Politics and Racism
It was interesting to read some California history that was completely new to me. I really enjoyed this book and found some parallels to what is happening with the current pandemic.
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