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Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven

Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven

Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
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Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven

by Shreve, Susan Richards

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9780618658534
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Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007. Very Good Hardcover with Very good dustjacket . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

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Just after her eleventh birthday, Susan Richards Shreve was sent to the sanitarium at Warm Springs, Georgia. The polio haven, famously founded by FDR, was “a perfect setting in time and place and strangeness for a hospital of crippled children.” During Shreve’s two year stay, the Salk vaccine would be discovered, ensuring that she would be among the last Americans to have suffered childhood polio. At Warm Springs, Shreve found herself in a community of similarly afflicted children, and for the first time she was one of the gang. Away from her fiercely protective mother, she became a feisty troublemaker and an outspoken ringleader. Shreve experienced first love with a thirteen-year-old boy in a wheelchair. She navigated rocky friendships, religious questions, and family tensions, and encountered healing of all kinds. Shreve’s memoir is both a fascinating historical record of that time and an intensely felt story of childhood.

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The Book House - St. Louis US (US)
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Title
Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
Author
Shreve, Susan Richards
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
ISBN 10
061865853X
ISBN 13
9780618658534
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication
Orlando, Florida
Date Published
2007
Keywords
Biography Epidemic Polio Franklin Delano Roosevelt American History Culture Childhood Disease Vaccination Memoir

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