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The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution

By Andrew M. Wehrman
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By Andrew M. Wehrman
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This LA Times Book Prize finalist is a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in the United States.

Finalist of the LA Times Book Prize for History by the LA Times, Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize by the Massachusetts Historical Society

The Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the inoculation of the Co...

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