List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Part I: The Rise and Fall of Epidemic Poliomyelitis 1
New York 1916 3
FDR 29
Warm Springs 41
Polio Crusaders 54
An Angel Abroad 85
A Planned Miracle 111
The Quick and the Dead 159
Born Too Soon 188
Part II: Lives of the Polios 227
In England 229
In America 276
A Civil Wound: an autobiographical coda 305
Appendix: Monkey Business 322
A Note on Sources 325
Notes 328
Select Bibliography 346
Index 354