Title: Splendid solution : Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio /
Authors: Kluger, Jeffrey
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Salk, Jonas.; Salk, Jonas,; Poliovirus Vaccine, Inactivated history; Poliomyelitis history; History, 20th Century; Virology; Virologists United States Biography.; Poliomyelitis United States History.; Poliomyelitis Vaccination History.; Poliomyelitis vaccine History.; United States
Abstract: The story of the polio vaccine and its creator discusses Salk's childhood during one of polio's worst epidemics and his education during the presidency of an afflicted FDR, describing how politics nearly prevented the vaccine's development.