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Pox: An American History (Penguin History of American Life)

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The untold story of how The united states’s progressive-era war on smallpox sparked probably the most great civil liberties battles of the 20 th century.

At the turn of the last century, a smallpox epidemic swept the US from coast to coast. On this gripping account, award- winning historian Michael Willrich chronicles the federal government’s fight against the outbreak and the ensuing clash of brand new medicine, civil liberties, and state power. Pox introduces readers to memorable characters on both sides of the debate-from the doctors and club- wielding police charged with enforcing the law to vaccinate each and every citizen to the anti-vaccinationists, who stood up for their individual freedoms but were continuously dismissed as misguided cranks. Riveting and thoroughly researched, Pox delivers a masterful examination of progressive-era history that resonates powerfully as of late.

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