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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication date
November 12, 2013
Pages
370
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780743265157
ISBN-10
0743265157
Dimensions
1.50 by 7 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.50 lbs.
Original list price
$30.00
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His Final Battle | The Gatekeeper | 1944 | Young Mr. Roosevelt | Triangle | Closest Companion | Franklin and Lucy | Fdr's Splendid Deception | No Ordinary Time
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: With a searching new analysis of primary sources, NBCC award winner James Tobin reveals how FDRâs fight against polio transformed him from a callow aristocrat into the energetic, determined statesman who would rally the nation in the Great Depression and lead it through World War II.
Here, from James Tobin, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, is the story of the greatest comeback in American political history, a saga long buried in half-truth, distortion and mythâ Franklin Rooseveltâs ten-year climb from paralysis to the White House.
In 1921, at the age of thirty-nine, Roosevelt was the brightest young star in the Democratic Party. One day he was racing his children around their summer home. Two days later he could not stand up. Hopes of a quick recovery faded fast. âHeâs through,â said allies and enemies alike. Even his family and close friends misjudged their man, as they and the nation would learn in time.
With a painstaking reexamination of original documents, James Tobin uncovers the twisted chain of accidents that left FDR paralyzed; he reveals how polio recast Rooseveltâs fateful partnership with his wife, Eleanor; and he shows that FDRâs true victory was not over paralysis but over the ancient stigma attached to the crippled. Tobin also explodes the conventional wisdom of recent yearsâthat FDR deceived the public about his condition. In fact, Roosevelt and his chief aide, Louis Howe, understood that only by displaying himself as a man who had come back from a knockout punch could FDR erase the perception that had followed him from childhoodâthat he was a pampered, too smooth pretty boy without the strength to lead the nation. As Tobin persuasively argues, FDR became president less in spite of polio than because of polio.
The Man He Became affirms that true character emerges only in crisis and that in the shaping of this great American leader character was all.
Here, from James Tobin, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, is the story of the greatest comeback in American political history, a saga long buried in half-truth, distortion and mythâ Franklin Rooseveltâs ten-year climb from paralysis to the White House.
In 1921, at the age of thirty-nine, Roosevelt was the brightest young star in the Democratic Party. One day he was racing his children around their summer home. Two days later he could not stand up. Hopes of a quick recovery faded fast. âHeâs through,â said allies and enemies alike. Even his family and close friends misjudged their man, as they and the nation would learn in time.
With a painstaking reexamination of original documents, James Tobin uncovers the twisted chain of accidents that left FDR paralyzed; he reveals how polio recast Rooseveltâs fateful partnership with his wife, Eleanor; and he shows that FDRâs true victory was not over paralysis but over the ancient stigma attached to the crippled. Tobin also explodes the conventional wisdom of recent yearsâthat FDR deceived the public about his condition. In fact, Roosevelt and his chief aide, Louis Howe, understood that only by displaying himself as a man who had come back from a knockout punch could FDR erase the perception that had followed him from childhoodâthat he was a pampered, too smooth pretty boy without the strength to lead the nation. As Tobin persuasively argues, FDR became president less in spite of polio than because of polio.
The Man He Became affirms that true character emerges only in crisis and that in the shaping of this great American leader character was all.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (February 26, 2014)
9781410465504 | details & prices | 647 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.70 lbs | List price $32.99
About: Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
About: Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Simon & Schuster (November 12, 2013)
9780743265157 | details & prices | 370 pages | 7.00 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $30.00
About: With a searching new analysis of primary sources, NBCC award winner James Tobin reveals how FDRâs fight against polio transformed him from a callow aristocrat into the energetic, determined statesman who would rally the nation in the Great Depression and lead it through World War II.
About: With a searching new analysis of primary sources, NBCC award winner James Tobin reveals how FDRâs fight against polio transformed him from a callow aristocrat into the energetic, determined statesman who would rally the nation in the Great Depression and lead it through World War II.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Simon & Schuster (September 2, 2014)
9780743265164 | details & prices | 370 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $18.00
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