These accounts are remarkable for the very personal, but never self-pitying, introspective narrative style used in describing the initial painful onset of polio, the bewilderment, the hospitalization, frequent misdiagnosis, overly-radical treatment, including surgery, or no treatment at all, the splinting, casting, isolation, immobilization, or unrelenting exercise and rehabilitative therapy of every sort.

New Jersey Polio Network

This is a book that every person who has had polio should read and share with their partner in life.

Post Polio Sudbury Chapter

...useful for illustrating how oral history can retrieve viewpoints of intimate human transactions which temper the documentary dominance of elite professionals...provides the impetus to expand what Sass has helpfully started.

The Oral History Review

An important, well-crafted book.

Choice Reviews

An important, well-crafted book.

Choice Reviews

These accounts are remarkable for the very personal, but never self-pitying, introspective narrative style used in describing the initial painful onset of polio, the bewilderment, the hospitalization, frequent misdiagnosis, overly-radical treatment, including surgery, or no treatment at all, the splinting, casting, isolation, immobilization, or unrelenting exercise and rehabilitative therapy of every sort.

New Jersey Polio Network