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[quote=Anonymous]One of my favorite books is The Fever of 1721. It's about the smallpox epidemic in Boston. It was fascinating! [i]More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776. In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial revolution, including Cotton Mather, the great Puritan preacher, son of the president of Harvard College; Zabdiel Boylston, a doctor whose name is on one of Boston's grand avenues; James and his younger brother Benjamin Franklin; and Elisha Cooke and his protegee; Samuel Adams.[/i] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25814342-the-fever-of-1721?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=9aUJy4z575&rank=1[/quote]
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