Download or read book Splendid Solution written by Jeffrey Kluger and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the polio vaccine and its enterprising creator, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the first national vaccination program, discusses Salk's childhood during one of polio's worst epidemics and his education during the presidency of an afflicted FDR, describing how politics and a discrediting rival researcher nearly prevented the vaccine's development.