Emphasizes on time as the defining nature of history - how events lead to other events, actions, changes, and often - unexpected outcomes. This title offer students a step-by-step narrative with balanced coverage of political, economic, social, cultural, military, religious, and intellectual history[...]
All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Now David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines-and [...]