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PRINTING HISTORY
Berkley hardcover edition: November 2006
Berkley trade paperback edition: September 2007

Berkley trade paperback ISBN: 978-0-425-21775-7

The Library of Congress has catalogued the Berkley hardcover edition as follows:

Crosby, Molly Caldwell.
The American plague : the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history /
Molly Caldwell Crosby.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-1-4406-2046-1

1. Yellow fever—History. 2. Yellow fever—Tennessee—Memphis—History. I. Title.
RC211.T3C76 2006
614.5’41—dc22
2006050497

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