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Publisher: Penguin Press (Crash Course Books)
Title: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Author: John Green
On Sale Date: March 18, 2025
ISBN 13: 978-0-525-55657-2
ISBN 10: 0-525-55657-5
Format: Hardcover
Retail Price: $28.00
Page Count: 208
Dimensions: 5.75 x 8.63 x 0.84 in
Weight: 0.75 lb
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Long before he became a science-history author, John Green was one of the most trusted voices on the internet: co-creator, with his brother Hank, of the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel and the free video series Crash Course, which has taught millions of students biology, history, and literature. He's also a bestselling novelist several times over—Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, and Turtles All the Way Down among his best-known books—and the author of the essay collection The Anthropocene Reviewed. Everything Is Tuberculosis grew out of a 2019 trip to Sierra Leone, where Green met a young TB patient named Henry Reider; the friendship that followed sent him deep into the science and politics of a disease most Americans assume was solved decades ago.
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Critics are calling it witty, urgent, and deeply human:
"Earnest and empathetic." — The New York Times
"The real magic of Green's writing is the deeply considerate, human touch that goes into every word." — Associated Press
"Witty, cogent and achingly beautiful." — NPR
"This highly readable call to action could not be more timely." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review
This book is for you if
You've read John Green's novels and didn't know he had this kind of narrative nonfiction in him too.
You want to understand why a curable, preventable disease still kills more than a million people a year—and what that says about who we choose to save.
You're drawn to books that braid one human story—Green's friendship with a young patient named Henry in Sierra Leone—into sweeping medical and social history.
You loved the empathetic, research-driven voice of The Anthropocene Reviewed and want more of it turned toward something urgent.
You want a book club pick that's righteously angry, deeply moving, and impossible to put down.
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