Radio and TV bookers have had John M. Barry on speed dial in recent weeks.
The Katrina disaster got him on many media outlets and his book Rising Tide into reprint.
I saw him tonight speaking about his book The Great Influenza with Avian flu as the appropriate peg.
When I checked a couple hours ago, both books were in the 120s in Amazon's bestsellers list. Kudos to Mr. Barry for writing historical non-fiction that speaks to our day.
Oddly enough, another book he wrote is Ambition and Power, about the fall of former House Speaker Jim Wright.
What synchronicity. Tom Delay isn't speaker, but no one could seriously say he was less powerful than Denny Hastert.
John M. Barry, you have eerie powers.
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