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A pleasure to read, full of people, dramatic situations,individual foibles and collective hard work...The story, 100 yearsold, has much to teach us about today.? ?The New York Times Book Review ?An involving medical detective story...richly atmospheric [and]consistently enthralling.? ?San Francisco Chronicle ?Chase, with her elegant, subtle writing, brings alive the humanvictims, particularly the often-tragic lives of Chinese laborerstrying to make a life for themselves.? ?USA Today ?If the folks at Homeland Security read one book this year, letit be Marilyn Chase?s The Barbary Plague, for the way it capturesin precise detail how political and business imperatives can impedethe battle against a deadly epidemic, in this case the bubonicplague?the fabled Black Death?in old San Francisco. The city?sleaders, even its health department, fought the news of theplague?s arrival more aggressively than the disease itself, despitethe deaths of dozens of vic
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