American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza EpidemicBetween the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in the United States. American Pandemic offers a much needed corrective to the silence surrounding the influenza outbreak. It sheds light on the social and cultural history of