Splendid solution : Jonas Salk and the conquest of Polio / by Jeffrey Kluger
de Kluger, Jeffrey
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New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 373 pages; Physical desc. : 373 p. : ill. , ports. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-358) and index. Subjects: Salk, Jonas (1914-1995) --Virologists --Poliomyelitis --Vaccination --United States --History. Summary: 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.
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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 .
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- Splendid solution : Jonas Salk and the conquest of Polio / by Jeffrey Kluger
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- Kluger, Jeffrey
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- 0399152164
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- 9780399152160
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- New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons
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- 2004
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