Polio: An American Story 4891092 224769599 2008-07-10T09:59:18Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other '''''Polio: An American Story''''' (ISBN 0-19-515294-8) is a book by [[David M. Oshinsky]], professor of history at [[University of Texas at Austin|The University of Texas at Austin]], which documents the [[poliomyelitis|polio]] [[epidemic]] in the [[United States]] during the 1940s and 1950s and the race to find a cure. It was published in 2005 by the [[Oxford University Press]] and won the [[2006 Pulitzer Prize|2006]] [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] and the 2005 Herbert Hoover Book Award. ==References== *{{cite press release|publisher=[[University of Texas at Austin|The University of Texas at Austin]]|date=[[April 17]], [[2006]]|url=http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/2006/04/history17.html|title=History professor wins Pulitzer Prize for "Polio: An American Story"|accessdate=2006-04-25}} [[Category:2005 books]] [[Category:Poliomyelitis]] {{science-book-stub}}