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Multiple New York Times Notable Book winner and University of Texas professor, David M. Oshinsky is a leading American political and cultural historian. Garnering the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History, this comprehensive and gripping narrative covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America’s relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk’s killed-virus vaccine (1954) and Sabin’s live-virus vaccine (1961) began to eradicate this dreaded disease. “Narrative history doesn’t get much better.”-Booklist, starred review
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“This brilliant combination of science writing and history justifiably won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History. Oshinsky masterfully weaves the plethora of variables associated with the development of the Polio vaccine: the history of the disease’s spread, FDR, the scientific discoveries and waring factions. Out of these events the authors spins a rich narrative that is both educational and an enjoyable read. I have no reservations in passing this book onto my mother, a polio survivor.”
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Phillip (5 out of 5 stars)
