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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):
- Physical fitness--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical fitness.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Rhetoric.
- 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.
- English language--United States--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Public opinion.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- United States.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (154 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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, Houck and Kiewe analyze the silences surrounding Roosevelt's disability, the words he chose to portray himself and his policies as powerful and healthgiving, and the methods he used to maximize the appearance of physical strength.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-138) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-05268-1
- 1-60344-673-7
- 1-58544-894-X
- OCLC:
- 607894389
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