A review by bravelass85
The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics by Stephen Coss

informative medium-paced

4.0

The author did a nice job of weaving together different historical stories that intersected in 1721 - Cotton Mather as a post-Salem Witch Trials leader in Boston, the first widespread use of innoculation in Boston, the smallpox outbreak, and the development of American newspapers as they jumped into all these controversies to create an audience.