Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio

Kluger, Jeffrey

ISBN 10: 0399152164 / ISBN 13: 9780399152160

Published by Putnam Adult, 2005

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SIGNED on the title page--signature only. New book that was opened only for signing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399152164
• ISBN 13: 9780399152160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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 of Moon Hunters: NASA's Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar System.