Nina Burleigh Livres

"Virus: Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America's Response to the Pandemic takes readers on an extraordinary journey from the medical science of viruses and vaccines, to conspiracy theories, through the history of knowledge, to the precipice--where we are now--of uncertainty about the future. This is not a book for those who think they already know how the story ends, but one that asks the tough questions in terse, hard-hitting paragraphs and chapters. Virus walks a tightrope wire, in the same way that nearly all Americans are already doing, and does not presume our lives will be saved by any one approach or answer, or that any side has ownership of the truth, but puts us on a path towards a better understanding of what just happened to us and where we're likely to be headed when, not if, the next virus appears. Here is: the true story behind the triumph of science in an era of unprecedented science denialism; the other true story of government malfeasance that brought the U.S. to its knees and saw more Americans die from the pandemic than in any other nation; an eye-opening series of interviews with researchers and creators of the mRNA vaccine, its test subjects, and other key figures; the history behind one of the great medical milestones: the astonishingly fast development and clinical deployment of the first mRNA vaccine, and how it will change the way medicine is practiced in the future; the alternate reality of bizarre conspiracy theories that undergirds pandemic denialism and vaccine hesitancy; the return of eugenics and how shock doctrine capitalism, crony corruption and extreme free ideology killed people of color, the poor, and the frail; an assessment of the lessons learned and opportunities lost and what this will mean for the future of our democracy and our people. Virus includes original research and interviews with many key figures and experts including MIT engineer ('The Edison of Medicine') and Moderna founder Robert Langer, Stanford microbiologist David Relman, first mRNA clinical trial (Seattle) participant Missy Pena, medical anthropologist Martha Louis Lincoln, among many others, and a deep reading of publicly available documents and reporting"-- Provided by publisher

Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists—even a poet and a musicologist—traveled to the Nile Valley under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and his invading army. Hazarding hunger, hardship, uncertainty, and disease, Napoleon's "savants" risked their lives in pursuit of discovery. The first large-scale interaction between Europeans and Muslims in the modern era, the audacious expedition was both a triumph and a disaster, resulting in finds of immense historical and scientific importance (including the ruins of the colossal pyramids and the Rosetta Stone) and in countless tragic deaths through plague, privation, madness, or violence. Acclaimed journalist Nina Burleigh brings readers back to the landmark adventure at the dawn of the modern era that ultimately revealed the deepest secrets of ancient Egypt to a curious continent.

A comprehensive, provocative, and critical account of the six women who have been closest to Trump. Previously published as Golden Handcuffs.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A compelling true-crime tale” (Elle) from an award–winning journalist about a murder in Italy and the controversial prosecution, conviction, and twenty-six-year sentencing of Amanda Knox—featuring a new epilogue “Clear-eyed, sweeping, honest, and tough . . . This is what long-form journalism is all about.”—Tim Egan, author of The Worst Hard Time The sexually violent murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, became a media sensation when Kercher’s housemate, Seattle native Amanda Knox, and her Italian boyfriend were arrested and charged with the murder. The story drew an international cult obsessed with “Foxy Knoxy,” a pretty honor student on a junior year abroad, who either woke up one morning into a nightmare of superstition and misogyny—the dark side of Italy—or participated in something unspeakable. The Fatal Gift of Beauty is Nina Burleigh’s literary investigation of the murder, the prosecution, and the conviction and twenty-six-year sentence of Knox. But it is also a thoughtful, compelling examination of an enduring mystery, an ancient, storied place, and a disquieting facet of Italian culture: an obsession with female sexuality.

Has any president in the history of the United States had a more fraught relationship with women than Donald Trump? His vulgar behavior speaks for itself: he flagrantly cheated on all three of his wives, brushed off multiple accusations of sexual assault, publicly ogled his eldest daughter, bought the silence of a porn star and a Playmate, and proclaimed his now-infamous seduction technique: "grab 'em by the pussy." How does he get away with this abhorrent behavior in the era of #MeToo and #TimesUp? And what are the roots of this profound misogyny? In Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump's Women, Newsweek national politics correspondent Nina Burleigh combines deep investigative journalism with a feminist analysis of the man and the most significant women in his life: his German-immigrant grandmother, Elizabeth, founder of the Trump Organization; his Scottish-immigrant mother, Mary, who acquired a taste for wealth as a maid in the Andrew Carnegie mansion; his wives - Ivana, Marla, and Melania (the first and third of whom are immigrants); and his eldest daughter, Ivanka, groomed to take over the Trump brand from a young age. Burleigh also examines the other women in Trump's orbit - his two older sisters, one of whom is a prominent federal judge; his often-overlooked younger daughter, Tiffany; his female employees; and those he calls "liars" - the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. Golden Handcuffs is a comprehensive and provocative exploration of how Trump's upbringing by his mother and grandmother informed his relationships with his wives and daughters, which in turn have shaped his attitudes toward women in general . The Trump women "now preside over the court of an end-times American Camelot on acid," Burleigh writes, "wielding enormous power over stylists and foreign dignitaries in exchange for surviving the ultimate reality-show challenge: meeting Donald Trump's exacting and archaic standards of what it takes for a woman to impress oligarchs and captains of supranational corporations." -- From dust jacket

Před více než dvěma sty lety se jen nejodvážnější Evropané odvažovali procházet nezmapovanou oblastí Blízkého Východu, přičemž Egypt byl obzvlášť fascinující díky tajemným památkám a hieroglyfům. V roce 1798 se však skupina vědeckých badatelů pod vedením Napoleona Bonaparta vypravila z Paříže do povodí Nilu, čímž Západu poprvé otevřela skutečný svět za jižními břehy Středozemního moře. Tato expedice, zahrnující více než 150 odborníků v různých oborech, se vylodila v Egyptě s cílem prozkoumat a dokumentovat místní kulturu a historii. Tito intelektuálové, vybaveni tužkami a vzorkovnicemi, se stali prvními moderními archeology, kteří se setkali s muslimskou kulturou a přinesli nové poznatky o ztracené civilizaci. Riskovali své životy, čelili hladu a nemocem, aby shromáždili rozmanité nálezy, od pyramid po drobné hmyzí exempláře. Po třech letech práce vytvořili encyklopedii Egypta, která jim zajistila čestné místo v historii. Jejich úsilí odhalilo tajemství, jež Evropu mátila po staletí, a to vše ještě před nástupem koloniálních říší.