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The author's clear and concise writing style...
...is a refreshing and engaging deviation from the stuffy, academic tone of most historical nonfiction. This book will help future historians grasp the complexity of the public health policies, socioeconomics, and partisan politics that dominated America's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
U.S. Review of Books
To call the book thorough would be an understatement.
Gruner's approach is dispassionate, allowing the massive death toll and preventable mistakes to speak for themselves. Responsibility is placed on political leaders, media, entertainment figures, and individual citizens without Gruner ever taking an accusatory tone; the stark and undeniable numbers do the job.
Kirkus Reviews
A clear-eyed history of America's bitterly divided response to Covid.
Gruner's analysis of data is transparent and persuasive. While he explores the history of virology and pandemics and other nations' responses to Covid, what is perhaps most powerful here is revisiting, in Gruner's precise and unheated reporting, the feeling of a nation spinning out of control, especially as overwhelming and contradictory conspiracy theories, accusations, and misinformation proliferated.
Booklife
Relevant, provocative, and thoughtful, Covid Wars is essential reading.
Covid Wars is a worthwhile read! It does a fantastic job of dissecting the expansive collateral damage that ill-informed COVID-19 decision-making had on the U.S. Gruner has written a well-researched, accessible, and poignant book that gives a broad, follow-up account of the effects of COVID-19 on America's political, social, and economic responses to this global threat.
David Jaggart | Readers' Favorite
Covid Wars is undoubtedly a historian's companion for the reference of the era.
Not only does Covid Wars document the diverse responses from the public, governments, and the World Health Organization, it also bluntly exposes the dishonest people and opportunists who used the crisis to profit while promoting unsubstantiated notions.
Lily Andrews | Reader Views
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Ronald Gruner
Ronald Gruner founded and served as the chief executive of three successful technology firms over his forty-year career: Alliant Computer Systems, Shareholder.com, and Sky Analytics. As a chief executive, Gruner wrote extensively on business and technology.
Since retiring, Gruner has published two histories: We the Presidents and COVID WARS. We the Presidents was awarded the gold medal for General Nonfiction by the Florida Book Awards in 2022.
Gruner wrote COVID WARS not only for today's readers, but to help future generations understand and learn from the struggles, division, and loss we Americans experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Gruner is a member of the Authors Guild and the Florida Authors and Publishers Association.
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