The Book Club: Lawrence Wright on why Covid was a catastrophe for America

<div>In this week's Book Club podcast, Sam Leith's guest is one of America's foremost magazine journalists, the <em>New Yorker</em>'s Lawrence Wright. His new book is <em>The Plague Year: America In The Time of Covid</em>. He tells Sam what a book brings to recent history that week-to-week journalism can't, about the extraordinary happenstance that put him in contact with one of the unsung heroes of the vaccine race, and the three reasons Covid was such a catastrophe for the US.</div> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>