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Author Houck, Davis W

Title FDR's body politics : the rhetoric of disability / Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 141 pages) : illustrations
Series Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 8
Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 8.
Contents Keeping secrets -- Quo vadis? -- In sickness and in health -- Looking for looker -- A new deal and a new body -- A satisfactory embodiment -- Body politics
Summary Franklin Roosevelt instinctively understood that a politician of his era who was unable to control his own body would be perceived as unable to control the body politic. He therefore took great care to hide his polioinduced lameness both visually and verbally. In FDR's Body Politics, Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe draw on never-before-used primary sources to analyze the silences surrounding Roosevelt's disability, the words he chose to portray himself and his policies as powerful and health-giving, and the methods he used to maximize the appearance of physical strength. They examine his broad strategies, as well as the speeches Roosevelt delivered during his political comeback after polio struck, to understand how he overcame the whispering campaign against him in 1928 and 1932. Ultimately, this is a story of triumph and courage that reveals a master politician's understanding of the body politic in the most fundamental of ways
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-138) and index
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Subject Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Health
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Language
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Public opinion
SUBJECT Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 fast
Subject Physical fitness -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Human body -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
English language -- United States -- Rhetoric
Public opinion -- United States
Health attitudes.
Politics, Practical.
Misinformation.
Disabled Persons -- psychology
Attitude to Health
Communication
History, 20th Century
Human Body
Politics
politics.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY.
Communication
Politics, Practical
Health attitudes
English language -- Rhetoric
Health
Human body -- Social aspects
Language and languages
People with disabilities
Politics and government
Presidents
Public opinion
Rhetoric -- Political aspects
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140464
United States
Subject United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Kiewe, Amos
ISBN 158544894X
9781585448944
9781603446730
1603446737
1299052681
9781299052680