{"product_id":"the-desperate-hours-one-hospitals-fight-to-save-a-city-on-the-pandemics-front-lines-paperback","title":"The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarie Brenner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAWARD-WINNING \u003ci\u003eVANITY FAIR \u003c\/i\u003eWRITER Marie Brenner shares a remarkable depiction of New York--a city in crisis--based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore long, America's largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid wasn't somehow halted, the death count in New York alone would be in the hundreds of thousands. And if New York's hospitals failed, what chance did the rest of the country have? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrenner, having been granted unprecedented 18-month access to the entire New York-Presbyterian hospital system, tells the story of the doctors, nurses, residents, researchers, and suppliers who tried to save lives across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn and the northern periphery of the city. Drawing on more than 200 interviews, Brenner takes us inside secure ICU units, sealed operating rooms, locked executive suites, unknown basement workshops, and makeshift clinics to provide extraordinary witness to the war as it was waged on the front line. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut \u003ci\u003eThe Desperate Hours\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a thrilling account of medicine under extreme pressure. It is an intimate portrait of courageous men and women coming together in their devotion to duty, their families, each other, and the city they loved more than any other.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarie Brenner\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of over half a dozen books and is a writer at large for \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e, and has won numerous awards for her reporting around the world. Her exposé of the tobacco industry was the basis for the 1999 movie \u003ci\u003eThe Insider\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards(R), including Best Picture. She is also a producer of the 2019 documentary \u003ci\u003eWhere's My Roy Cohn?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.7 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 13, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760914563360,"sku":"9781250837158","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7bc5b9b945d6cda810a09324608db505.webp?v=1780194081","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-desperate-hours-one-hospitals-fight-to-save-a-city-on-the-pandemics-front-lines-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}