American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard

American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

Kevin Hazzard

336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the worldUntil the 1970s, if you suffered a medical cri...

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informative 95%
inspiring 76%
reflective 41%
emotional 38%
adventurous 31%
hopeful 28%
challenging 26%
sad 19%
tense 10%
dark 4%
funny 2%
relaxing 1%

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fast 20%
slow 3%

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