David M Oshinsky

Gebundenes Buch

Polio

An American Story

Beschreibung

The gripping story of the 1950s polio scare and of the intense--and intensely bitter--competition to find the first vaccine.

Autor

David M. Oshinsky is George Littlefield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. A leading historian of modern American politics and society, he is the author of A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy and "Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, both of which won major prizes and were New York Times Notable Books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 164mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780195152944
• ISBN-10: 0195152948
• Artikelnr.: 21595880