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What did we just live through? This is a question many Americans are asking as we emerge from both the Donald Trump presidency and the corona-virus pandemic. It is also the question at the centre of two new books. The Plague Year , by the veteran New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright – best-known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning study of another American catastrophe, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006) – chronicles the unfolding of the Covid-19 crisis in the US, which to date has killed more than 600,000 Americans. And in Last Best Hope , the...
