Black Death at the Golden Gate - The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
Author(s): David K. Randall
On March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown--but when corrupt politicians mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate. Black Death at the Golden Gate is a spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress.
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- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- : 0.235868
- : July 2020
- : 2 Centimeters X 14 Centimeters X 21.1 Centimeters
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- : David K. Randall
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 616.9/23200979461
- : 304