This fascinating social history covers the gripping drama of the polio terror and the effort to find a cure. It includes suspenseful stories of the race and intense rivalry between Jonas Salk and Albert Sabine for a life-saving vaccine; the creation of the March of Dimes, led by FDR, which revolutionized medical research and fundraising; and the lives of two remarkable women – Martha Mason, who lived over sixty years in an iron lung; and Sister Kenny, the amazing Australian nurse who developed a controversial treatment for paralyzed limbs.
This unbelievable and compelling examination of the conquest of polio combines all the elements of a modern-day thriller.