Warm Springs: Trace's of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
por SHREVE, Susan RIchards
- Usado
- Bom
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
- Condição
- Bom/Fine
- Livreiro
-
Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
Sinopse
Just after her eleventh birthday, Susan Richards Shreve was sent to the sanitarium at Warm Springs, Georgia. The polio haven, famously founded by FDR, was a perfect setting in time and place and strangeness for a hospital of crippled children.” During Shreve’s two year stay, the Salk vaccine would be discovered, ensuring that she would be among the last Americans to have suffered childhood polio. At Warm Springs, Shreve found herself in a community of similarly afflicted children, and for the first time she was one of the gang. Away from her fiercely protective mother, she became a feisty troublemaker and an outspoken ringleader. Shreve experienced first love with a thirteen-year-old boy in a wheelchair. She navigated rocky friendships, religious questions, and family tensions, and encountered healing of all kinds. Shreve’s memoir is both a fascinating historical record of that time and an intensely felt story of childhood.
Avaliações
(Entrar ou Criar uma conta primeiro!)
Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 418880
- Título
- Warm Springs: Trace's of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
- Autor
- SHREVE, Susan RIchards
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Fine
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Co
- Local de publicação
- Boston
- Data de publicação
- 2007
Termos da venda
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
All books are first editions unless otherwise noted. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS, DISCOVER, PAYPAL, checks and money orders. New Jersey residents please add 6.625% sales tax. All items guaranteed, all items subject to prior sale. Members ABAA, ILAB. Shipping is $4.50 for Media Mail, $10.00 for Priority Mail or UPS Ground. Tracking is provided for every order. Alternate shipping available by request. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.
Sobre o Vendedor
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Sobre Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Glossário
Alguns termos que podem ser usados ??nesta descrição incluem:
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...