Davis W. Houck

FDR's Body Politics

The Rhetoric of Disability

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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. Houck and Amos Kiewe draw on never-before-used primary sources to 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. They examine his broad strategies, as well as the speeches Roosevelt deliv… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kiewe, Amos

ISBN: 978-1-58544-233-1
EAN: 9781585442331
Produktnummer: 1756646
Verlag: Texas A & M University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm 408 g
Abbildungen: 6 b&w photographs, bibliography, index
Gewicht: 408
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

Davis W. Houck is an assistant professor of communication at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His works include Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression and FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address, also published by Texas A&M University Press. AMOS Kiewe, director of the speech communications department and associate dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University in New York, has written and edited several books, including The Modern Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric and A Shining City on a Hill; Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989.