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Bill Gates said of Rosen's work, "Rosen argues that only with the ability to measure incremental advances-such as whether a lighter part lowers fuel consumption, or one engine produces more power than another-can you achieve sustained innovation. With a writing style that used anecdotes to pull together the threads of discovery and innovation, Rosen authored or co-authored books on education, traffic, antibiotics, and climate change. Born in California, Rosen worked for nearly 25 years as an editor and publisher at Macmillan, Simon and Schuster and the Free Press before becoming an author. William Rosen PRINCETON JUNCTION Author William Rosen, 61, whose works of narrative nonfiction include "Justinian's Flea" and "The Most Powerful Idea in the World: The Story of Steam, Industry and Invention," died at home on April 28, 2016, of gastrointestinal stromal cancer, according to his agent. a massively ambitious work.Ībout the Author William Rosen, author of Miracle Cure, The Third Horseman, Justinian's Flea, and The Most Powerful Idea in the World, was an editor and a publisher at Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and the Free Press for nearly twenty-five years.William Rosen was an historian and author who previously was an editor an publisher at Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and the Free Press for nearly twenty-five years.

Kirkus Reviews Impressive study of the bubonic plague and its impact on history. The Guardian (UK) History written with passion, panache, and an appealing bit of attitude. The Economist "Impressive study of the Bubonic plague and its impact on history. readers will be swept along by the strong current of Mr.

Weaving together history, microbiology, ecology, jurisprudence, theology, and epidemiology, Justinian's Flea is a unique and sweeping account of the little known event that changed the course of a continent. It was the first pandemic the world had ever known and it left its indelible mark: when the plague finally ended, more than 25 million people were dead. At its height, five thousand people died every day in Constantinople. In weeks, the glorious classical world of Justinian had been plunged into the medieval and modern Europe was born. It was the zenith of his achievements and the last of them. Maps.īook Synopsis From the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure and The Third Horseman, the epic story of the collision between one of nature's smallest organisms and history's mightiest empire During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian reigned over a territory that stretched from Italy to North Africa.

About the Book This sweeping narrative explores history's first pandemic-a plague that occurred seven centuries before the Black Death which killed millions, devastated the empires of Persia and Rome, and opened the way for the armies of Islam.