![]() ![]() And don't get me started on the amount of typos! ![]() " I mean, I can admit to having a short memory and often appreciating when someone's role or occupation is reintroduced, especially if it's been a while since they figured in a book, but I counted AT LEAST 12 times that the author wrote the above. ![]() you could make a drinking game of how many times he repeats "the diarist Elizabeth Drinker" and "the publisher. Was there any?! There are certain people in the narrative that come up again and again because of their roles and/or their accounts. The many stops and starts and the constant circling back to previous points and parts of the narrative are part of my criticism of its structuring. The author speaks of a certain ship as the Ground Zero carrier of this plague to Philadelphia, yet also talks about other ships also responsible for bringing plague to our then-capital that year. Next, he keeps talking about this plague as a "pandemic," but almost exclusively centers his story on Philadelphia's experience. First off, the title pronounces the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 to have been "America's First Plague," yet the author very clearly and somewhat repetitively demonstrates that, in fact, this was not our first epidemic, not even of yellow fever. This book had the potential to be three or even more stars, but I found it to be VERY poorly structured, written, and edited. ![]()
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