Tom Lynch

Way back in 1918 a plague ripped through America and killed more people in six months than AIDS has in the last twenty-five years. Author and historian John M. Barry's 500-page evaluation of the plague, called "The Great Influenza," is enough to send a bona-fide hypochondriac over the proverbial edge. Symptoms of the disease were a bit unattractive--a dark discoloration of the skin, severe aches in bones, and consistent bleeding from the eye sockets. The picture section of the book includes a photograph of a trolley car. A posted sign reads, "Spit Spreads Death," and Barry quips, "Posters only spread terror." So will Barry's book.

John M. Barry reads from "The Great Influenza" at Bookstall at Chestnut Court, 811 Elm Street, Winnetka, (847)446-8880, 7pm.

(2004-02-18)

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