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SUMMARY:Laura Spinney - The Spanish Flu of 1918 Book Discussion and Signing
DESCRIPTION:Columbia University Bookstore\n2922 Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027 \nLaura Spinney will be discussing her new book Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World followed by a book signing. The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth – from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain\, Franz Kafka\, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people\, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. \nIn this gripping narrative history\, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus traveled 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. It was partly responsible\, Spinney argues\, for pushing India to independence\, South Africa to apartheid and Switzerland to the brink of civil war. It also created the true “lost generation.” Drawing on the latest research in history\, virology\, epidemiology\, psychology\, and economics\, Pale Rider masterfully recounts the little-known catastrophe that forever changed humanity. Additional information about the book can be found in its press release \nLaura Spinney is a science journalist and a literary novelist. She has published two novels in English\, and her writing on science has appeared in National Geographic\, Nature\, The Economist\, and The Telegraph\, among others. Her oral history portrait of a European city\, Rue Centrale\, was published in 2013 in French and English.
URL:https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/scisoc/cssevent/laura-spinney-pale-rider-booksigning/
LOCATION:Columbia University Bookstore\, 2922 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Columbia University Events,NYC Metro area events
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