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Sardonic, iconoclastic, profane, and unapologetically blunt, The COVID Chronicles casts a dystopian eye on the self-inflicted ills that plague mankind - global warming and climatic disasters; unfettered capitalism, corruption, and injustice; greed, violence, and a lust for war; the rising irrelevance of knowledge and the pride of ignorance; the subversion of democracy and the seditious forces, political and religious, that conspire to turn America into a fascist mafia state. Sadly, the author asserts, the evanescent nature of history's impact on succeeding generations does not include a built-in sense of anticipation for the horrors to come.

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W.E. Gutman is often 'mad as hell' in his books. In this latest, The COVID Chronicles, his rage is barely contained. Using his learning, wide experience, and persuasive pen, he illuminates the dark corridors of history, both past and present, to reveal how a craving for money and power has condemned humanity to steady and irreversible decline. The United States plays a major - and immediate - role in this dark drama, with its very survival as a democracy threatened by the prospect of a second Trump Administration. But even if this can be avoided, the political, economic, cultural, and religious forces at work across the globe today leave no room for optimism. -ALAN RIDING, a former New York Times European Cultural Correspondent based in Paris and author of And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris Compelling, stirring, unsettling. Despite Gutman's inherent pessimism and the depth of personal pain it reflects, it is the testament of a survivor. -JULIAN KRAININ, award-winning Hollywood writer, director, and producer

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Born in Paris, W. E. Gutman is a retired Franco-American journalist and published author. The former international editor of the late-great futurist magazine, OMNI, and the co-founder of a defense publication monitoring the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, he was U.S. editor of a Moscow-based science journal. He later served as a press officer at Israel's Consulate General in New York. He reported from Central America from 1994 to 2006.

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