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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
Author: Susan Richards Shreve
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780547053837
ISBN-10: 0547053835
Publication Date: 6/10/2008
Pages: 224
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Mariner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Interesting take on a young girl's experience with this debilitating disease and the determination to rise above it.
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I tried to get interested in this author's account of the time she stayed in Warm Springs but it just jumped around too much. With every new chapter, I was trying to figure out where this part left off from. About half way through it my four year old son took the bookmark out and lost my place. I started to try to pick up where I left off but decided that I really didn't want to.


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