David Oshinsky
DAVID OSHINSKY, Ph.D., is a professor in the NYU Department of History and director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine. In 2005, he won the Pulitzer Prize in History for Polio: An American Story . His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy , and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning "Worse Than Slavery" Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice . His articles and reviews appear regularly in The...See more
DAVID OSHINSKY, Ph.D., is a professor in the NYU Department of History and director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine. In 2005, he won the Pulitzer Prize in History for Polio: An American Story . His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy , and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning "Worse Than Slavery" Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice . His articles and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal . See less
David Oshinsky's Featured Books
David Oshinsky book reviews
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
Bellevue
by Susan K, Jan 22, 2021
One of the best books I have ever read. Wonderful U.S. history within this book coordinates with the development of an exceptional hospital from its first days until present. Read More
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A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy
Madness
by Clayton, Jun 27, 2014
A good book about era when American's went mad through scare tactics Read More
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Polio: An American Story
by Thomas, Dec 19, 2013
Excellant history of the cure for this crippling disease.
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