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The Book Show #1719 - Lawrence Wright

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published June 29, 2021 at 3:00 PM EDT
Book cover for "The Plague Year"
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Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and New Yorker staff writer whose new book, “The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid,” is an all-encompassing account of the Covid epidemic – its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it. 
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