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The veteran "Wall Street Journal "science reporter Marilyn Chase s fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today s headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the city s Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on public health of politics, race, and geography, Chase shows how one city triumphed over perhaps the most frightening and deadly of all scourges."