John M. Barry (b. 1947) is an American author and historian who has written books on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the influenza pandemic of 1918, and the development of the modern form of the ideas of separation of church and state and individual liberty. He is Distinguished Scholar and adjunct faculty at Tulane University.
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Read the insightsUntil recently, the idea of a pandemic took most people’s imagination to Hollywood thrillers and the Black Plague that ravaged medieval Europe. But the most devastating plague to ever strike the human race took place a century ago, during the First World War. This story contains many lessons for how—and how not—to handle a pandemic. Barry’s tie-ins to our own day (most recent edition published in 2018) have an eerily prophetic ring to them in light of the corona virus that has recently swept the globe.