Arthur Allen

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1) Vaccine: the controversial story of medicine's greatest lifesaver

Author

Allen, Arthur

Publisher

W.W. Norton

Pub. Date

[2007]

Language

English

2) The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl: how two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis

Author

Allen, Arthur

Publisher

W.W. Norton & Company

Pub. Date

[2014]

Language

English

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Jewish-American Heritage Month

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The story of "Jewish prisoner-scientists in Buchenwald who made a vaccine against ... typhus. Their untold secret: they provided the real vaccine to camp inmates but a fake one to German troops at the eastern front"--Dust jacket back.

3) By the light of burning dreams: the triumphs and tragedies of the second American revolution

Author

Talbot, David

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Large Print

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"The political landscape of the 1960s and 1970s was perhaps one of the most tumultuous in this country's history, shaped by the fight for civil rights, women's liberation, Black power, and the end to the Vietnam War. In many ways, this second American revolution was a belated fulfillment of the betrayed promises of the first, striving to extend the full protections of the Bill of Rights to non-white, non-male, non-elite Americans excluded by the nation's...