

Polio: An American Story
Author: David Oshinsky
Narrator: Jonathan Hogan
Unabridged: 14 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Published: 03/14/2007
Categories: Nonfiction, History
Author: David Oshinsky
Narrator: Jonathan Hogan
Unabridged: 14 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Published: 03/14/2007
Categories: Nonfiction, History
Did the 20th Century see any other disease like poliomyelitis? Unlike consumption or cholera, it was not the by-product of a poor and polluted society, but of a crowded and fairly clean one, which is why the most dangerous time for the disease was in summer, when children sometimes went from public......more
My older brother died before I was born due to bulbar polio in 1949. As a result, my parents decided to try again so I can say I am here due to polio. Naturally this book caught my eye when I spotted in on a friend's bookshelf and reading it I discovered how little I knew about the disease and the pe......more
This book was very interesting and enlightening. I wish I could spend more time writing a full review of it, but I've been working 10-12 hour days at work this past week and would rather read than write. But a few key points: 1) I learned a lot about FDR's role in the whole Polio issue. I knew that h......more
I know it’s become cliché, particularly in my reviews, to say that a history book reads like a novel, but this one really does, and not just a contemplative novel, but a page-turning drama. The protagonist is Dr. Jonas Salk and he and rival scientist Dr. Albert Sabin are in a race to conquer a truly......more