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      Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital

      David Oshinsky

      A history of the iconic public hospital on New York City’s East Side describes the changes in American medicine from 1730 to modern times as it traces the building’s origins…

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      Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America

      David M. Oshinsky

      Takes a fresh look at the Supreme Court’s controversial and much-debated stances on capital punishment - in the landmark case of Furman versus Georgia.

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      Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America

      David M. Oshinsky

      Takes a fresh look at the Supreme Court’s controversial and much-debated stances on capital punishment - in the landmark case of Furman versus Georgia.

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      Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice

      David M. Oshinsky

      In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil…

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      A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy

      David M Oshinsky

      Describes the internal and external forces that launched Joseph McCarthy on his political career and carried him to national prominence.

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      Polio: An American Story

      David Oshinsky (George Littlefield Professor of History, George Littlefield Professor of History, University of Texas)

      Presents a portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the widespread panic over polio to shed light on our national obsessions and fears. Drawing on the papers of Jonas…

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      Polio: An American Story

      David Oshinsky (George Littlefield Professor of History, George Littlefield Professor of History, University of Texas)

      The gripping story of the 1950s polio scare and of the intense-and intensely bitter-competition to find the first vaccine.

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