Watch video of best-selling author John M. Barry‘s November 2006 talk, “Hurricanes, Viruses, Politics and the Nature of Inquiry,” at Ingram Hall as part of the Chancellor‘s Lecture Series.
Barry is best known for The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, which examines the 1918 pandemic with a death toll of 50 to 100 million worldwide. This compelling and timely book was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show “Bird Flu: The Untold Story” in January 2006 and won the 2005 Keck Award from the National Academies of Science for the outstanding book on science or medicine of the year. Read more.
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