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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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0547053835
ISBN 13
9780547053837
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Mariner Books, June 2008. Trade Trade. Very Good. Good Softcover. Moderate soiling and shelfwear to covers. Spine has creasing. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

Synopsis

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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Bookseller
Jane Addams Book Shop US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
76635
Title
Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
Author
Susan Richards Shreve
Format/Binding
Trade Trade
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0547053835
ISBN 13
9780547053837
Publisher
Mariner Books
Date Published
June 2008
Pages
224

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We are a locally owned, independent bookstore that has been in business for more than twenty-five years. With more than 70,000 titles in our shop we have a number of very well-stocked sections that span fifteen separate rooms on three floors.

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