Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk And The Conquest of Polio - Hardcover

Kluger, Jeffrey

 
9780399152160: Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk And The Conquest of Polio

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The story of the polio vaccine and its enterprising creator, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the first national vaccination program, discusses Salk's childhood during one of polio's worst epidemics and his education during the presidency of an afflicted FDR, describing how politics and a discrediting rival researcher nearly prevented the vaccine's development. 75,000 first printing.

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Jeffrey Klugeris a senior writer at Time. Coauthor of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which was the basis for the movie Apollo 13, he is also the author ofMoon Hunters: NASA's Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar System.

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