Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven by Susan Shreve

Memoir
An appealing memoir by a good writer of her life at Warm Springs, GA, a polio treatment spa, when she was eleven years old. It came as a real surprise to me to discover what a positive experience Warm Springs was for polio patients. (President Franklin D. Roosevelt founded Warm Spring, went there for treatment, and that is where he died). But the book isn’t as much about polio as it is a fascinating picture of a time and place in our culture. It’s all combined with a story told by a delightful young girl, just beginning to grow up, of how she coped, the people she met, and the wonderful institution Warm Springs was.

Submitted by Queen of the Hop