An American Story
by David M. Oshinsky
Recommended by Bill Gates
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science, and History.
Here 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 vaccinesand beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky paints a suspenseful portrait of the race for the cure, weaving ...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science, and History.
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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Gates Foundation
“Influenced the decision that Melinda and I made to make polio eradication the top priority of the foundation, as well as my own personal priority.”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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