Polio: An American Story

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Polio: An American Story (ISBN 0-19-515294-8) is a book by David M. Oshinsky, professor of history at The University of Texas at Austin, which documents the polio epidemic in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s and the race to find a cure. It was published in 2005 by the Oxford University Press and won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2005 Herbert Hoover Book Award.
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David Oshinsky

David M. Oshinsky (born 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian; he currently holds the Jack S. Blanton chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin and is a distinguished scholar in residence at New York University. Oshinsky graduated from Cornell in 1965 and obtained his PhD...
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