John M. Barry is the author of four previous books: Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed Amer ica; Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports; The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer (co-written with Steven Rosenberg); and The Ambition and the Power: A True Story of Washington. He lives in New Orleans and Wash ington, D.C.
'History brilliantly written... The Great Influenza is a masterpiece' -- <i>Baton Rouge Advocate</i> 'Majestic, spellbinding treatment of a mass killer' -- <i>Kirkus</i> 'A sobering account of the 1918 flu epidemic, compelling and timely' -- <i>Boston Globe</i> Monumental... powerfully intelligent... not just a masterful narrative... but also an authoritative and disturbing morality tale -- <i>Chicago Tribune</i> 'Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject' 'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history' -- Bill Gates