David M. Oshinsky Born: 1944
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States Executive summary: Polio: An American Story University: BA, Cornell University (1965) University: MS, Cornell University (1967) University: PhD, Brandeis University (1971) Professor: American History, University of Texas at Austin Department Chair: History, University of Texas at Austin
Pulitzer Prize for History 2006 for Polio: An American Story
Author of books:
Senator Joseph McCarthy and the American Labor Movement (1976, history) A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy (1983, biography) The Case of the Nazi Professor (1989, history) Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice (1996, history) Polio: An American Story (2005, history) Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America (2010, social studies)
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