Contents 
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