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Became, there are five other books, all of them useful, about Roosevelt’s experience with polio. They are: Turnley Walker, Roosevelt and the Warm Springs Story (1953); Jean Gould, A Good Fight (1960); Theo Lippmann Jr., The Squire of Warm Springs: FDR in Georgia, 1924–1945 (1977); Richard Thayer Goldberg, The Making of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Triumph Over Disability (1981); and Hugh Gregory Gallagher, FDR’s Splendid Deception (1985). Another good source for the Warm Springs story, with many photographs, is Kaye Lanning Minchew, A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia (2016).

Overviews of all aspects of FDR’s life appear in Otis L. Graham Jr. and Meghan Robinson Wander, eds., Franklin D. Roosevelt, His Life and Times: An Encyclopedic View (1985).

The reader knows how much I relied on the observations of the Roosevelts’ friend Frances Perkins, who knew FDR well from the beginning of his career in politics and served as secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor throughout his terms as president. She recounts her memories and her ideas about FDR not only in The Roosevelt I Knew but also in the interviews she gave to the Columbia University Center for Oral History Research. These deeply detailed and fascinating interviews, which cover Perkins’s entire life and career, can be heard online in their entirety at the center’s website.

 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Teaching the craft of telling true stories has forced me to think harder about how stories work. Talking about the craft with students as they try it themselves is a pleasure. So I’m grateful to my students at Miami University for our work together.

Two of those students, now on their way to illustrious careers, lent time and talent to this project. Megan Zahneis provided important research on the 1932 campaign and on the debate over the Roosevelt Memorial. She also shared her reflections on the experience of disability, which have influenced my interpretation of FDR at numerous points. Samantha Brunn gave critical aid with photographs.

No historian can write a page without archivists and librarians, who keep the materials of history alive, organized, and within reach. For this book I’m especially grateful to the archival staff of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Thanks, too, to Matthew Schaefer of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum.

At Henry Holt and Company, Christy Ottaviano and her colleagues were superb. I’m especially indebted to Christy for her faith in the project, her excellent judgment, and her patience. Thanks, too, to Taylor Pitts and Barbara Bakowski for their thorough and astute copyediting.

At Fletcher & Company, Melissa Chinchillo represented the book with her usual skill and good cheer.

I’m grateful to John U. Bacon, who helped me get it over the finish line.

I’m lucky to belong to a big extended family of book lovers. Thanks to all the Tobins, Kellers, Wilsons, and LaFaves for keeping the torch alive and the business afloat.

But Leesa Erickson Tobin deserves by far the most thanks, for absolutely everything.

 INDEX

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Abbott, Greg

Abbott, LeRoy

accessibility, as governor of New York State

activism, Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor, with

adhesions, muscle

Alsop, Joseph (cousin)

American Orthopedic Association

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

aneurysm, death from

anterior horn cells

artists

Astor, Vincent

Atlanta Journal-Constitution (newspaper)

babies

immune system of

infant mortality

polio reducing adults to

Bad Nauheim, Germany

bank system

Barrett, Dr.

“beneath one’s dignity” (infra dignitatem)

Bennet, Eben Homer

Bidou, Gabriel

biographies, writing

Black, Van Lear

Bloch, Maurice

bones, muscles and

Botts, Fred

Boy Scouts

braces

innovations

as muscle substitutes

spring-loaded

brain

nervous system and

signals with polio

Buffalo News (newspaper)

Byrd, Harry F.

campaign trail, FDR on

governorship of New York State

presidential race

Campobello Island

canals, waterways

Cathedral of Saint John the Divine

cells

babies and immune

horn

lymphocytes or immune

muscle

poliomyelitis and

Chicago Tribune (newspaper)

children

Boy Scouts

disabled

with discipline

health of

immune cells of babies

infant mortality

labor laws and

polio and

China

A Christmas Carol (Dickens)

Civil War

Civilian Conservation Corps

Cleland, Max

Cleveland, Grover

Columbia University

“consumption” (tuberculosis)

contractures, in muscles

Coolidge, Calvin

Corbett, D. Lawson

corrective walking

Courier-Journal (newspaper)

Cox, James Middleton

“cripple” (crawl)

connotations

as pejorative

Cross, Guernsey

crutches

falling on

standing with

walking with

Curtis, Egbert “Curt”

Dall, Curtis

Daniels, Josephus

Davis, John W.

D-Day (1944)

deep-sea fishing

Delano, Frederic (uncle)

with advice

with physician referral

Delano, Warren, Jr. (grandfather)

Democratic National Convention (DNC) (1924)

FDR with speech at

media and

in New York City

preparing for

Democratic National Convention (DNC) (1928)

DePew, Louis

Dickens, Charles

Dickerman, Marion

disabilities

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

FDR and portrayal of

disabled people

DNC. See Democratic National Convention

Dowdell’s Knob, Georgia

Draper, George

on FDR in politics

on muscle atrophy

on muscle strength

with polio and FDR

rehabilitation and

driving, FDR and

Duffy, Yvonne

economy

Great Depression and

unemployment and

voters with

education

electric power

Emmet, Marvin & Roosevelt

epidemic, polio (1916)

Episcopalians

Erie Canal

Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home (Post)

Evening Post (newspaper)

falls, accidental

family life, FDR and

adjustments to

on Campobello Island

conflict

with daughter, marriage of

at Hyde Park

with polio as focus

romantic affair and

as support system

Farley, “Big” Jim

farmers

FDR. See Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Fidelity & Deposit Company

Finch, Edward R.

Finn, Daniel

fires

forest

Ku Klux Klan with

Triangle Shirtwaist factory

fireside chats

Florida Keys

injury and fall at

rehabilitation in

sunlight, polio and

Flynn, Ed

food prices

Ford, Edsel

Ford, Henry

Ford Model T

forest fires

France

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission

Garner, John Nance

Gennerich, Gus

Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. See also Warm Springs, Georgia

Germany

governorship, of New York State

with accessibility

calls to run for

campaign trail

with doubts about FDR and fitness for

with doubts about fitness, FDR response

election results

with fireside chats

legacy

mobility and

with nomination accepted

polio and

with political strategy

reelection

religion and

Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor, and

speeches for

with tour by canal

wheel chair and

Grayson, Cary

Great Depression

Gregory, Cleburne

Groton School

Guffey, Joseph

Hague, Frank

Hall, Anna Rebecca

Hamburger, Philip

Hamlin, Bertie Pruyn

Harding, Warren G.

Harvard College, Porcellian social club at

Hasbrouck, Paul

health, of children

Heart, William Randolph

Henley, William Ernest

Hershheimer, Lambert

Hitler, Adolf

homelessness

Hoover, Herbert

administration of

FDR and

Great Depression and

legacy

popularity of

Smith and

Hoover, Mrs.

Hooverville settlements

horn cells

House of Representatives, US

Howe, Grace

Howe, Louis

as adviser

Campobello Island and

FDR, paralysis and

FDR, presidential nomination and

with FDR and governorship of New York State

Fidelity & Deposit Company and

polio, FDR and

with political strategies for FDR

with rehabilitation

Hubbard, Leroy

Hudson, Mary

human waste, polio and

Hundred Days, FDR and

Hyde Park

immigrants

immune system

cells, lymphocytes and

polio, babies and

polio and

toilets, sewers and

inauguration, of FDR

infantile paralysis. See also poliomyelitis

infant mortality rate

infants

infra dignitatem (“beneath one’s dignity”)

“Invictus” (Henley)

Irish Americans

Japan

Jefferson, Thomas

Jews

Johnson, James

Jones, LeRoy

Joseph, Louis

Keen, William Williams

Keyes, Henry Wilder

Krida, Arthur

Ku Klux Klan

labor

laws

unemployment

unions

wages

Lake, Kathleen

Lawrence, John

laws

LeHand, Marguerite “Missy”

with FDR and governorship of New York State

with FDR and polio

in Florida Keys

illness and

moral support from

alleged romantic affair with FDR

as secretary to FDR

Lehman, Herbert

Liberty (magazine)

Lincoln, Abraham

Longmore, Paul K.

Looker, Earle

Los Angeles Times (newspaper)

Lovett, Robert

braces and

influence of

legacy

on muscle atrophy

muscle strength and

with polio