The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Tobin, Ph.D., James

Edité par Simon & Schuster, New York, 2013

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As new condition dark gray boards with a black spine and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by James Tobin; Author Dedication; Prologue; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; Photo Credits and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "Here, from James Tobin, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, is the story of the greatest comeback in American political history, a saga long buried in half-truth, distortion and myth - Franklin Roosevelt's ten-year climb from paralysis to the White House. In 1921, at the age of thirty-nine, Roosevelt was the brightest young star in the Democrat Party. One day he was racing his children around their summer home. Two days later he could not stand up. Hopes of a quick recovery faded fast. "He's through," said allies and enemies alike. Even his family and close friends misjudged their man, as they and the nation would learn in time. With a painstaking reexamination of original documents, James Tobin uncovers the twisted chain of accidents that left FDR paralyzed; he reveals how polio recast Roosevelt's fateful partnership with his wife, Eleanor; and he shows that FDR's true victory was not over paralysis but over the ancient stigma attached to the crippled. Tobin also explodes the conventional wisdom of recent years - that FDR deceived the public about his condition. In fact, Roosevelt and his chief aide, Louis Howe, understood that only by displaying himself as a man who had come back from a knockout punch could FDR erase the perception that had followed him from childhood - that he was a pampered, too smooth pretty boy without the strength to lead the nation. As Tobin persuasively argues, FDR became president less in spite of polio than because of polio. The Man He Became affirms that true character emerges only in crisis and that in the shaping of this great American leader character was all." - from the inner front jacket flap. N° de réf. du vendeur 004988

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Titre : The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to ...

Éditeur : Simon & Schuster, New York

Date d'édition : 2013

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : As New

Etat de la jaquette : As New

Edition : 1st Edition