The Vaccine Works

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

Jeffrey Kluger pays tribute to the monumental scientific effort to find a polio vaccine: Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio.

» Read an excerpt of Splendid Solution in the Reading Room

Events: Jeffrey Kluger will be speaking on:
Monday, January 31st at 7:30pm
Barnes and Noble, Upper West Side
2289 Broadway (at 82nd Street)

Carlos Ruiz Zafan will be speaking on:
Monday, January 31st at 7pm
McNally Robinson
50 Prince Street

Music: Soundtrack to Cobb, music by Elliot Goldenthal: "Winter Walk"

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