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FDR's body politics : the rhetoric of disability / Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houck, Davis W.
- Series:
- Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 8.
- Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Health.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Language.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Public opinion.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- Physical fitness--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical fitness.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Rhetoric.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- History.
- Public opinion.
- Health.
- United States.
- Human body--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Human body.
- People with disabilities--United States--Biography.
- People with disabilities.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Politics and government.
- English language--United States--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 141 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2003]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [133]-138) and index.
- ISBN:
- 158544233X
- OCLC:
- 50422875
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