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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 Susan Richards Shreve

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Houghton Mifflin Co, 6/7/2007 12:00:01 AM. hardcover. Acceptable. 0.8000 in x 8.2000 in x 5.7000 in. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

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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
Author
Susan Richards Shreve
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Hardcover
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ISBN 10
061865853X
ISBN 13
9780618658534
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Place of Publication
Orlando, Florida
Date Published
6/7/2007 12:00:01 AM
Size
0.8000 in x 8.2000 in x 5.7000 i
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