{"title":"John M. Barry","description":"John M. Barry is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Great Influenza and the prizewinning history Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. He divides his time between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Washington, D.C.","products":[{"product_id":"roger-williams-and-the-creation-of-the-american-soul-church-state-and-the-birth-of-liberty-paperback","title":"Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revelatory look at the separation of church and state in America--from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Influenza \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor four hundred years, Americans have fought over the proper relationships between church and state and between a free individual and the state. This is the story of the first battle in that war of ideas, a battle that led to the writing of the First Amendment and that continues to define the issue of the separation of church and state today. It began with religious persecution and ended in revolution, and along the way it defined the nature of America and of individual liberty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcclaimed historian John M. Barry explores the development of these fundamental ideas through the story of Roger Williams, who was the first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, and who created in America the first government and society on earth informed by those beliefs. This book is essential to understanding the continuing debate over the role of religion and political power in modern life.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365571231967,"sku":"9780143122883","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZhZo3Gbt8q9780143122883.webp?v=1789066433"},{"product_id":"the-great-influenza-the-story-of-the-deadliest-pandemic-in-history-paperback","title":"The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.\"\u003cb\u003e--Bill Gates\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Influenza\u003c\/i\u003e provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, \"The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365574869215,"sku":"9780143036494","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/M15Liaofq_9780143036494.webp?v=1789066458"},{"product_id":"rising-tide-the-great-mississippi-flood-of-1927-and-how-it-changed-america-paperback","title":"Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of almost one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of African Americans north, and transformed American society and politics forever. The flood brought with it a human storm: white and black collided, honor and money collided, regional and national powers collided. New Orleans's elite used their power to divert the flood to those without political connections, power, or wealth, while causing Black sharecroppers to abandon their land to flee up north. The states were unprepared for this disaster and failed to support the Black community. The racial divides only widened when a white officer killed a Black man for refusing to return to work on levee repairs after a sleepless night of work. In the powerful prose of Rising Tide, John M. Barry removes any remaining veil that there had been equality in the South. This flood not only left millions of people ruined, but further emphasized the racial inequality that have continued even to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366074187999,"sku":"9780684840024","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/oJAEtCM94r9780684840024.webp?v=1789080760"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/john-m-barry.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}