Charles L Mee’s memoir A Nearly Normal Life (Little, Brown & Co, 1999) wonderfully evokes the atmosphere of early 1950’s small-town America and the constant dread that the annual polio epidemics brought to a land so shaped by the ethos of optimism, youth and health and can-do. But the last thing Mee, a 14-year-old, ‘with [...]
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