I’ve been reading a great book about a horrific pandemic that gripped the world more than a century ago, John M. Barry’s “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.” ...

Mr. Barry talked about his book [The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History], published by Viking Press. The book discusses an influenza that spread across the globe in ...

His 2004 book "The Great Influenza," about the flu pandemic of 1918, is on the current bestseller list. We'll talk more about 1918 and today's pandemic after we take a short break.

GREAT INFLUENZA: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History By John M. Barry. Viking, 546 pp., $29.95. With bunting and ballyhoo and a string of marchers two miles long, Philadelphia's ...

The numbers astonish and horrify. According to the earliest estimates, 20 million people died during the flu pandemic of 1918. That figure is still used in classrooms and textbooks, but as John M ...

I’ve been reading a great book about a horrific pandemic that gripped the world more than a century ago, John M. Barry’s “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.” ...

I’ve been reading a great book about a horrific pandemic that gripped the world more than a century ago, John M. Barry’s “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.” ...

I've been reading a great book about a horrific pandemic that gripped the world more than a century ago, John M. Barry's "The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History." ...