Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City by Jeanette Keith. - Book 2

Katie Taylor 
Period 5
September 18, 201


Book 2. Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City by Jeanette Keith. 

Product Details Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury Press; 1 edition (October 2, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1608192229 ISBN-13: 978-1608192229 Customer Review: " It was not boring which surprised me. It contains information about the disease which is relevant today. It is excellently researched with quotes and stories from people who lived at this time." Profesional Reviews: "Testifies to a fact worth being aware of in the future  ‘Epidemics strip away social pretensions,’ Keith writes, ‘and show us for what we are…'"--Laura Miller, Salon “This is rewarding history.”—Jim Landers, The Dallas Morning News Why I Chose This Book: I chose this book because it appears to be an extremely well researched account of a major epidemic and the effects it had on the social structure of the city.