FDR's body politics : the rhetoric of disability

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FDR's body politics : the rhetoric of disability

Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe

(Presidential rhetoric series, no. 8)

Texas A&M University Press, c2003

1st ed

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-138) and index

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内容説明

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 polio-induced 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.

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