Nina Burleigh is a reporter and author of six prior books,
including most recently The Trump Women: Part of the Deal and the
New York Times bestseller The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italian
Trials of Amanda Knox, of which Tim Egan wrote: "Clear-eyed,
sweeping, honest and tough… sets a standard that any of the other
chroniclers of this tale have yet to meet. This is what long-form
journalism is all about." She most recently covered America
under Donald Trump as national politics correspondent at
Newsweek. She got her start in journalism covering the Illinois
Statehouse in Springfield, IL, and is a fellow of the Explorers
Club who has covered stories on six continents.
Burleigh’s writing has
appeared in Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Time, New York, The New
York Times Magazine, Slate and Bustle. She has appeared on Real
Time with Bill Maher, Good Morning America, Nightline, The Today
Show, 48 Hours, on MSNBC, CNN and C-Span, NPR, in numerous
documentaries, podcasts and radio programs. A former judge for the
J. Anthony Lukas prize for nonfiction, Burleigh is an adjunct
professor at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Her
work has been cited in hundreds of scholarly articles.
"Excellent." —Rolling Stone
"Some day, movies will be made about the political chaos and
collective insanity of America during the 2020 pandemic. Until
then, we have Virus, an action packed, information rich, rapid-fire
recounting of an incompetent government, a terrified citizenry, and
medical research in hyperdrive despite a healthcare system in
shambles. Nina Burleigh is a tireless reporter and a dazzling
storyteller. This book had me in its grip on every page and left me
knowing more than I ever thought I could know — including how much
we have yet to understand."
—Meghan Daum, author of The Problem With Everything: My Journey
Though The New Culture Wars
"Burleigh’s book will undoubtedly remain a go-to forpoliticians
reminding them how not to respond to apandemic and the
repercussions of messing with scientificbodies. The book is an
gripping read and should remainin everyone’s library to mull over a
depressing presidentialresponse to an outrageous
pandemic."
—The Lancet for Infectious Diseases
"Nina Burleigh’s Virus is a fast-paced narrative that captures the
spirit of our dystopian times. In doing so, it transforms the
battle of science against a deadly pathogen into one pitting the
fact-based world against the dark forces of paranoid cults, cynical
political calculations, and greed in a senseless war that caused
hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths."
—Craig Unger, author of American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated
Donald Trump and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power and
Treachery.
"In the early days of the pandemic, Burleigh skipped the
bread-making part of lockdown and wisely picked up her tattered
copy of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year and
noticed the similarities between the epidemic that gripped London
in the 1660s and our present one: the rumors, the closing of
theaters, the conspiracy theories, the rich fleeing the cities, and
the shocking death toll. Yet here was the United States, the
richest country on earth with health care that did not rely on
leeches, and still some half-million Americans died. In pungent and
persuasive prose, Burleigh indicts the Trump administration first
and foremost, while crediting the scientists who persevered and
produced the mRNA vaccines. Burleigh has delivered a book that will
be read for years to come by anyone interested in a first-rate
chronicle of our own plague year. Oh, and by the way, do not throw
away your masks—Burleigh makes clear there will be a next
time."
—AirMail
"Nina Burleigh has written a riveting, big-picture account of the
unfolding of the pandemic in America. She shows how the spread of
conspiracy theories, the Trump administration's favoring of
ideology and nativism over science and international collaboration,
and an anti-public welfare mindset among influential right-wing
billionaires produced this tragedy. Essential and timely
reading."
—Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at New York University and
bestselling author of Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present
“The book is a useful, page-turning, blow-by-blow account of
events... [A] worthy summary of where we’ve been and where we are
in the pandemic.”
–Kirkus Reviews
"Nina Burleigh has managed to craft the painful headlines of 2020
into a gripping narrative, as well as a thoughtful meditation on
the uses and misuses of science."
—James Ledbetter, Chief Content Officer, Clarim Media, and author
of
One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Dominated the
American Political Imagination for Four Centuries
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