Based on thousands of hours of research, this companion book to the PBS documentary of the same name tells the story of the polio epidemic in America. 100 photos.
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...a series of fascinating and sobering stories... -- The New York Times Book Review, Stephanie Sun
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A Fascinating look at America's Polio experience.,
By James Horwitz, MD (jdplus3@a-o.com) (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Paralyzing Fear: The Triumph Over Polio In America (Hardcover)
This book contains a series of interviews with individuals who have either been involved in the treatment, cure, or suffering of polio. The accounts give captivating first hand insight into the horror of contracting polio, the experience of the disease progressing, the Iron Lung experience, and the therapies available at that time. Interviews with those who worked with Dr Salk, as well as his wife, are included as well.The numerous black and white photographs paint a vivid image of the experience. While this book is not intended to be a complete history of polio, it is an excellent book for those who wish to know how the polio epidemics felt, as well as the pride in the conquest of polio through the March of Dimes. This book would be a good addition for a high school or junior high school library as well.
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Heartbreaking,
By Carolyn Dargevics (Neenah, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Paralyzing Fear: The Triumph Over Polio In America (Hardcover)
I purchased this book because I am ghostwriting a story about polio. My client's 14-year-old twin siblings died from polio in the 1950s. She was 12 at the time and it devastated their family. I wanted more background information and this book provided it for me. Truly, truly heartbreaking on so many levels. Great photos and bios.
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Polio and it's epidemics explained.,
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This review is from: A Paralyzing Fear: The Triumph Over Polio In America (Hardcover)
This book accompanied the PBS special of the same name. It did an excellent job of explaining the causes of the growing polio epidemics in the first half of the twentieth century. To think that public sanitation, which ended other deadly diseases, had a role in the increase of polio cases. It's a must read for anyone who remembers this scourge, or any historian.
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It was the robber of hope for a generation, several generations of children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
polio patients, polio survivors, iron lung, polio cases, polio epidemics, hot packs, polio virus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
March of Dimes, Warm Springs, National Foundation, Sister Kenny, New York, Jonas Salk, United States, Basil O'Connor, San Diego, World War, Ann Arbor, Franklin Roosevelt, Los Angeles, University Hospital, Albert Sabin, University of Pittsburgh, White House, Children's Hospital, Tommy Francis, Vice President, President Roosevelt, Air Force, American Medical Association, North Carolina, Louis Howe New!
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It was the robber of hope for a generation, several generations of children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
polio patients, polio survivors, iron lung, polio cases, polio epidemics, hot packs, polio virus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
March of Dimes, Warm Springs, National Foundation, Sister Kenny, New York, Jonas Salk, United States, Basil O'Connor, San Diego, World War, Ann Arbor, Franklin Roosevelt, Los Angeles, University Hospital, Albert Sabin, University of Pittsburgh, White House, Children's Hospital, Tommy Francis, Vice President, President Roosevelt, Air Force, American Medical Association, North Carolina, Louis Howe New!
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- Zsa Zsa Gabor: My Story by Gerold Frank in Back Matter
- North Africa: Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia Including Gibraltar, Pantelleria and the Pelagie Islands and Malta by Graham Hutt on page 166
- Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine by Jane S. Smith in Front Matter
- Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vacine by Jane S. Smith in Front Matter
- Eleanor and Franklin (Signet) by Joseph P. Lash in Back Matter
- Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio by Anne Finger in Back Matter
- Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky in Back Matter
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