Master of His Fate
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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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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Preface
PART 1 THE INFECTION
(AUGUST–OCTOBER 1921)
Chapter 1: Campobello
Chapter 2: Questions
Chapter 3: “Hard, Cruel Facts”
Chapter 4: “He’s Through”
PART 2 STANDING UP
(NOVEMBER 1921–JULY 1924)
Chapter 5: Trial and Error
Chapter 6: “Every American Stands”
Chapter 7: “I Am Interested in Too Many Things”
Chapter 8: “A Wildcat in Your Face”
PART 3 GETTING READY
(FALL 1924–SUMMER 1928)
Chapter 9: Something in the Water
Chapter 10: “The One and Only Topic of Conversation”
Chapter 11: Three Strategies
Chapter 12: “He Was Getting Ready for Something”
PART 4 “A TOUCH OF DESTINY”
(FALL 1928–FALL 1932)
Chapter 13: “You’ve Got to Play the Game”
Chapter 14: “On My Feet”
Chapter 15: “He Must Do It Himself”
Chapter 16: Whispers and Shouts
Epilogue
Photographs
A Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Copyright
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Tobin, James, 1956– author.
Title: Master of his fate: Roosevelt’s rise from polio to the presidency / James Tobin.
/> Other titles: Roosevelt’s rise from polio to the presidency
Description: First edition. | New York: Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references. | Audience: Ages 9–14 | Audience: Grades 4–6 | Summary: “A biography of FDR, focusing on his battle with polio and how his disease set him on the course to become president, for fans of Steve Sheinkin’s political biographies”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020020580 | ISBN 9781627795203 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882–1945—Juvenile literature. | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882–1945—Health—Juvenile literature. | Presidents—United States—Biography—Juvenile literature. | Poliomyelitis—Patients—United States—Biography—Juvenile literature. | Presidents—United States—Election—1932—Juvenile literature.
Classification: LCC E807 .T635 2021 | DDC 973.917092 [B] —dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020020580
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