Black Death at the Golden Gate : the race to save America from the bubonic plague
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019].
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First edition.
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273 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.
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Lamar Public Library (C426) - NONFICTION | 616.9232 RANDAL DAVID | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 hadnt́ noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groiná sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wongś 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 ten million lives worldwide. To local press, railroad barons, and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivableór inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, ending the career of one of the most brilliant scientists in the nation in the process, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued. Spearheading a relentless crusade for sanitation, Blue and his men patrolled the squalid streets of fast-growing San Francisco, examined gory black buboes, and dissected diseased rats that put the fate of the entire country at risk. Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blueś race to understand the disease and contain its spreadt́he only hope of saving San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Randall, D. K. (2019). Black Death at the Golden Gate: the race to save America from the bubonic plague (First edition.). W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Randall, David K.. 2019. Black Death At the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America From the Bubonic Plague. W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Randall, David K.. Black Death At the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America From the Bubonic Plague W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Randall, David K.. Black Death At the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America From the Bubonic Plague First edition., W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
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