Warm Springs Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven

Name: Warm Springs Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
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ISBN: 9780547053837

ISBN-10: 0547053835

ISBN-13: 9780547053837

Edition: 2007

Authors: Susan Richards Shreve

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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…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Susan Richards Shreve is the author of twelve novels and a number of books for children. She is a professor at George Mason University and the president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She lives in Washington, D. C.