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diagnosis

with polio prognosis

rehabilitation and

water exercises and

Loyless, Tom

lymphocytes

Lynch, Tom

MacKaye, Milton

MacPherson, Leighton

Mahoney, Helena T.

corrective walking with

with FDR and change in mindset

Lovett and

Manning, William Thomas

Marion, Massachusetts

with alternative treatment

daily regimen at

“walking” at

marriage

Marvin, Langdon

massages, rehabilitation and

McAdoo, William Gibbs

McDonald, William (Mrs.)

McDonald, William “Billie”

McDuffie, Irvin

McKinley, William

media. See also specific newspapers

on DNC speech

with FDR and disability, portrayal of

with FDR and polio news

FDR in

with FDR in politics, doubts about

polio in

with Smith, criticism of

Warm Springs, Georgia, in

Mellett, Lowell

memorial, to FDR

Meriwether Inn. See also Warm Springs, Georgia

purchases for

rehabilitation of

in rundown condition

middle class, polio and

Miller, Earl

mineral springs

mobility, FDR and

driving

as governor of New York State

improvements

problems with

with wheel chair

Mormons

Moskowitz, Belle

Murphy, “Silent Charlie”

muscles

adhesions

atrophy with paralysis

bones and

braces as substitutes for

cells

contractures in

isolating

mass

strength

National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

national parks

nervous system

New Deal

New York City

accidental fall in

DNC in

police reform in

residence in

Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in

New York State. See also governorship, of New York State

New York Sun (newspaper)

New York Times (newspaper)

New York World (newspaper)

New Yorker (magazine)

Norton, Lily

Ochs, Adolph

O’Connor, Basil

Osgood, Robert

Ottinger, Albert

Panama Canal

paralysis. See also poliomyelitis; Warm Springs, Georgia

connotations

life attitude with

life changes with polio and

life outlook with

muscle atrophy and

National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

opinions about

recovery from

with spring-loaded leg braces

standing and

Peabody, George Foster

Pearl Harbor

Pendergast, “Boss” Tom

Perkins, Frances

on DNC

on FDR

FDR as New York State governor and

on governorship of New York State

with guests, too-talkative

personality, of FDR

physical therapy (PT)

FDR, walking and

rehabilitation and

setbacks

at Warm Springs, Georgia

physiotherapy

Plastridge, Alice Lou

police, reform

poliomyelitis (polio, infantile paralysis)

babies, immune system and

brain signals and

cells and

children and

diagnosis

epidemic of 1916

FDR and news of

FDR with paralysis and life changes

as focus of family life

governorship of New York State and

human waste and

immune system and

in media

in middle- and upper-class neighborhoods

National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

paralysis and

prognosis for FDR

reactions to

stigma of

sunlamp and

sunlight and

symptoms

treatment options, alternative

political strategies, for FDR

with New York State governorship

with political life, return to

presidential nomination and

with US Senate bid

politics. See also governorship, of New York State; presidential nomination

FDR, rise of

liberal principles in

marriage and

Roosevelt, Theodore, and

with walking as imperative

Warm Springs, Georgia, and

women and

Pope, Henry

Pope, Margaret

population, of New York State

Porcellian social club, at Harvard College

Post, Emily

posterior horn cells

Pott’s disease

presidential nomination

FDR and

Smith and

presidential race, FDR and

administration

campaign trail

doubts about fitness for

with integrity, attacks on

presidential race, Smith and

Prohibition

Proskauer, Joseph

Protestants

PT. See physical therapy

Pyle, Ernie

radio, fireside chats on

Ragan, Adolphus

Raskob, John J.

reforms

refugees, World War I

rehabilitation, FDR and

with contractures in muscles

in Florida Keys

massages and

physiotherapy and

PT and

recovery and attitude with

setbacks

standing with crutches and

treatment options, alternative

at Warm Springs, Georgia

water exercises and

religion

Episcopalians and

governorship of New York State and

Jews and

Mormons

Protestants and

Roman Catholic Church and

Retan, Elizabeth

rights

Rockey, Edna

Rogers, Mr.

Rogers, Will

Roman Catholic Church

romantic affair

Roosevelt, Alice (cousin-in-law)

Roosevelt, Anna (daughter)

family life and

with FDR and polio

governorship of New York State and

marriage of

Warm Springs, Georgia, and

Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (wife)

as activist

Campobello Island and

with family conflict

with FDR and governorship of New York State

with FDR and polio

with Hoover, Mrs.

marriage and

New York City residence and

rehabilitation and

statue of

support from

Warm Springs, Georgia, and

Roosevelt, Anne (granddaughter)

Roosevelt, David (grandson)

Roosevelt, Elliott (cousin)

Roosevelt, Elliott (son)

at DNC

family life and

with FDR and polio

wheel chair and

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR). See also governorship, of New York State; mobility, FDR and; political strategies, for FDR; rehabilitation, FDR and; walking, FDR and

administration

ambition of

American Orthopedic Association and

aneurysm and death of

Boy Scouts and

braces and

as campaign chairman for Smith

on campaign trail, governorship of New York

on campaign trail, presidential race

Campobello Island and

courage of

death of

with diagnosis, polio

with disability, portrayal of

DNC, preparing for

at DNC

early years

with falls, accidental

family life and

with fireside chats

Ford Model T, driving and

with guests, too-talkative

Hoover and

with Howe, Louis, as adviser

Hundred Days and

at Hyde Park

immune system of

inauguration of

with integrity, attacks on

“Invictus” and

in Marion, Massachusetts

marriage and

in media

memorial to

with mindset, change in

new reality with polio

New York City residence and

opinions about

optimism of

with ownership of Warm Springs, Georgia

paralysis and

with paralysis and life changes

Pearl Harbor and

personality of

with polio news made public

politics, rise of

presidential race and

with prognosis, polio

religion and

reputation of

with response to critics

with romantic affair

speeches of

with stamp collection

statue of

with symptoms, polio

as tree farmer

whispering campaign against

World War II and

Roosevelt, Franklin D, Jr. (son)

on Campobello Island and FDR

family life and

with FDR and polio

wheel chair and

Roosevelt, James (father)

Roosevelt, James (son)

on braces

at DNC

family life and

with FDR and polio

governorship of New York State and

at Groton School

presidential election and

wheel chair and

Roosevelt, John (son)

Roosevelt, Mittie Bulloch

Roosevelt, Nicholas (cousin)

Roosevelt, Sara Delano (mother)

with family conflict

with FDR and polio

FDR as New York State governor and

moral support from

rehabilitation and

on T.R.

Warm Springs, Georgia, and

Roosevelt, Theodore (T.R.) (fifth cousin)

attitude toward life

influence of

legacy

politics and

Rosenman, Samuel

Rough Riders

Saratoga Springs, New York

Saturday Evening Post (newspaper)

Scudder, Townsend

Secret Service, US

Senate, US

sewers, immune system with toilets and

Smith, Alfred E.

on doubts about FDR for governor

early years

education and

Hoover and

with labor laws

media with criticism of

Moskowitz and

with political savvy

with presidential nomination

with presidential race

Tammany Hall and

Social Security

speeches, of FDR

spring-loaded leg braces

stamp collection

standing

act of

with crutches

muscles used for

paralysis and

physiotherapy and

Starr, Dr.

statues

Steiger, Thelma

Stevens, Ruth

stigma, of polio

Suckley, Daisy (cousin)

Sullivan, Tim

sunlamp

sunlight, polio and

swimming pools

syphilis rumor

Tammany Hall

Tennessee

Tennessee Valley Authority

toilets, immune system with sewers and

tour, by canal

T.R. See Roosevelt, Theodore

treatments

tree farmer, FDR as

Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire

tuberculosis (“consumption”)

Tully, Grace

Tumulty, Joseph

Tuttle, Charles H.

unemployment

unions, labor

United States (US)

House of Representatives

Secret Service

Senate

Untermyer, Samuel

upper class, polio and

utilities

Val-Kill stone cottage

veterans, World War I

Vietnam War

voters

voting rights, for women

Wadsworth, James Walcott

wages, labor

Wagner, Robert

Walker, Jimmy

Walker, Turnley

walking, FDR and

adjustments

without aid

corrective

with crutches

as imperative for politics

at Marion, Massachusetts

optimism for

physiotherapy and

PT and

in public

walking board

Ward, Geoffrey

Warm Springs, Georgia

Georgia Warm Springs Foundation

group support at

in media

Meriwether Inn at

mobility improvements at

ownership of

politics and

promotion of

PT at

restorative powers of

success at

temperature and water quality

as treatment center

Washington, George

water. See also Warm Springs, Georgia

at Bad Nauheim, Germany

canals

exercises and rehabilitation

in Florida Keys

Saratoga Springs

swimming pools

Weaver, Dorothy

Wehle, Louis B.

Welles, Orson

wheel chair

accessibility problems

governorship of New York State and

mobility with

whispering campaign, against FDR

debunking

persistence of

syphilis rumor

Whiteley Exerciser

Wilson, Daniel

Wilson, Woodrow

women

labor laws and

politics and

voting rights for

women’s clubs

World War I (1914–1918)

refugees

romantic affair during

veterans of

World War II (1939–1945)

Wright, Wilhelmine

Young, Owen D.

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James Tobin is an award-winning biographer and the author of The Very Inappropriate Word and Sue MacDonald Had a Book. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography for Ernie Pyle’s War and the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight. He teaches narrative nonfiction in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University in Oxford, OH. You can sign up for email updates here.

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