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FDR's Body Politics : The Rhetoric of Disability.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Presidential Rhetoric and Political CommunicationPublisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (155 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781603446730
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: FDR's Body PoliticsDDC classification:
  • 973.917/092;B
LOC classification:
  • E807 -- .H725 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- contents -- illustrations -- preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Keeping Secrets -- 3 Quo Vadis? -- 4 In Sickness and in Health -- 5 Looking for Looker -- 6 A New Deal and a New Body -- 7 "A Satisfactory Embodiment" -- 8 Body Politics -- notes -- bibliography -- Index.
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.
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Intro -- contents -- illustrations -- preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Keeping Secrets -- 3 Quo Vadis? -- 4 In Sickness and in Health -- 5 Looking for Looker -- 6 A New Deal and a New Body -- 7 "A Satisfactory Embodiment" -- 8 Body Politics -- notes -- bibliography -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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