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Loading... FDR's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt's Massive…by Hugh Gregory Gallagher
   None No current Talk conversations about this book. A fascinating and revealing story of the daily struggle Roosevelt went through to prove the country that he was able bodied and capable of leading the nation. Reading this increases one understanding and persception of the physically challenged and will inspire support for all necessary accomidations.  MarthaL | Nov 24, 2009 |  Most biographers of FDR treat his bout with polio as an episode in his life, something worthy of mention but not much more. Gallagher, himself a paraplegic polio (he prefers that term to "polio victim" or "survivor"), points out how impossible it would be for paraplegia, which affects every minute of a person's day, the attitudes of others, and a person's self-concept, not to be the central fact of Roosevelt's adult life. In fact, the myth that polio was an inconvenience that FDR overcame was a carefully nurtured construct. The author's insight makes this a uniquely perspicacious biography. (  ) muumi | Aug 4, 2009 | Wonderful book with great insight to the manipulations of FDR and his administration---as well as the difference of that era's media, who refused to make his handicap visible. (  )1  DonnaPaints | Feb 20, 2007 | no reviews | add a review
This moving story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's massive disability-and the intense efforts to conceal it from the public-has been widely acknowledged as revising the understanding of Roosevelt's personality and decision making process. It is an intensely personal view of FDR. It traces his developments from the early years, his battle with polio, his fight for rehabilitation, his paralysis and his need to hide it, both in public and in private-as well as the impact the paralysis and its cover-up had on his political career, his personality, and his relations with others. Now complete with a detailed account of the FDR Memorial and the struggle by disability advocates to have FDR depicted as he was-in his wheelchair. Must reading for everyone interested in presidential history, disability history, and modern American history. A book not to be missed. No library descriptions found. |
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