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Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven [SIGNED COPY,
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Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

by Shreve, Susan Richards

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New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by author on title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Essentially as new. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 215 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Young adult. A memoir of childhood polio by the Guggenheim Fellow author of 'A Country of Strangers' and 'A Student of Living Things'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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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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Title
Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
Author
Shreve, Susan Richards
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Hardcover
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1st Edition 1st Printing
ISBN 10
061865853X
ISBN 13
9780618658534
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2007
Pages
224

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