All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found.
Drawing on newly available papers of.
Here is a remarkable portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the widespread panic over polio to shed light on our national obsessions and fears.
Now David Oshinsky tells the gripping Story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond.
All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found