Black Death at the Golden Gate The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
, by Randall, David K.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780393358155 | 0393358151
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/7/2020
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.