[OPLINLIST] Author of POLIO: AN AMERICAN STORY to speak in McArthur

[Erick C. Walker]

Dr. David M. Oshinsky, 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner 

for History, to speak in McArthur April 13

 

The 2006 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History, David M. Oshinsky, will offer a keynote presentation for Cherishing Family: A Spring Literary Arts Festival in McArthur, Ohio on Friday, April 13.

A specialist in twentieth century United States politics and culture, Oshinsky is George Littlefield Professor of American History at the University of Texas at Austin. After earning a Ph.D. in American civilization from Brandeis University, he taught for nearly 30 years at Rutgers University in New Jersey. In 2001, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas.

His most recent book, Polio: An American Story (Oxford University Press, 2005), won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History and has been featured on The Lehrer News Hour, NPR's Science Friday and numerous other national outlets. 

He has several other publications that have received scholarly recognition.  A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy won the Hardeman Prize as the best book about the U.S. Congress; it was selected as one of the ten best books of 1983 by the New York Times Book Review.  Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice won the 17th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for its contribution to human rights.  He is a co-author of American Passages: A History of the United States and a co-editor of The Oxford Companion to United States History. His articles and reviews appear regularly in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Chronicle of Higher Education.

Oshinsky's Polio: An American Story examines the polio scare of the mid-twentieth century, the war on polio, and some of the fascinating forgotten stories. Every child everywhere was at risk of catching this horrific disease that had no prevention or cure. Thousands of children died and thousands more were paralyzed, inspiring many researchers to become involved in the great race for the cure. This lecture will tell the enthralling story.

            Oshinsky will speak at 7 p.m. on April 13 at the Vinton County High School. 

 

Cherishing Family: A Spring Literary Arts Festival is sponsored by the Herbert Wescoat Memorial Library 

and the Friends of the Herbert Wescoat Memorial Library, Inc., in McArthur, Ohio. 

The festival opens at 1 p.m. on Friday, April 13, 2007 and the last event will commence at 3 p.m. 

on Sunday, April 15, 2007. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, 

contact the library at 740-596-5691 or www.vintoncountypublic.lib.oh.us.
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