"A Fight to the Finish" chronicles the dramatic story of America's battle against the last of the deadly childhood plagues. Led by a president who was left paralyzed from the waist down by polio, the struggle to develop a vaccine depended on the contributions of millions of Americans to the March of Dimes. No public funds were used in this unprecedented effort that culminated in a nationwide pilot program that involved vaccinating three million school children, the largest peacetime mobilization in the nation's history.