Polio: An American Story

Polio: An American Story (ISBN 0-19-515294-8) is a book by David M. Oshinsky, professor of history at The University of Texas at Austin, which documents the polio epidemic in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s and the race to find a cure.

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It was published in 2005 by the Oxford University Press and won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2005 Herbert Hoover Book Award.

References

• The University of Texas at Austin (April 17, 2006). "History professor wins Pulitzer Prize for "Polio: An American Story"". Press release. Retrieved on 2006-04-25.