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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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061865853X
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9780618658534
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Boston/ New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Dj by Georgia A. Liebman. 20500 shelf. Gold-stamped blue bds.A tad musty. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. With b/w photos. Solid. Blurbs: Deborah Tannen, Gail Godwin. Looks unread. Shreve's memoir of her childhood time at the famous treatment center founded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Synopsis

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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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
062336
Title
Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
Author
Shreve, Susan Richards
Illustrator
Dj by Georgia A. Liebman
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Quantity Available
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Edition
1st Edition
ISBN 10
061865853X
ISBN 13
9780618658534
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication
Boston/ New York
Date Published
2007
Pages
215
Keywords
American history health

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