FDR's body politics : the rhetoric of disability /

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. H...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Houck, Davis W.
Other Authors: Kiewe, Amos
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2003.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 8.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=102407