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<p>Franklin Roosevelt instinctively understood that a politician unable to control his own body would be perceived as unable to control the body politic. He took care to hide his polio-induced lameness both visually and verbally. Through his speeches-and his physical bearing when delivering them-he tried to project robust health for himself while imputing disability, weakness, and even disease onto his political opponents and their policies.</p><p>In <i>FDR's Body Politics:</i> <i>The</i> <i>Rhetoric of Disability,</i> Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe 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. Drawing on never-before-used primary sources, they explore how Roosevelt and his advisors attacked his most difficult rhetorical bind: how to address his fitness for office without invoking his disability. 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.</p><p>The

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Author

Davis W Houck; Amos Kiewe; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

Texas A & M University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781585448944

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Political Science

Rating

3.25 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14