Here, from James Tobin, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, is the story of the greatest comeback in American political history, a saga long buried in half-truth, distortion, and myth--Franklin Roosevelt\'s ten-year climb from paralysis to the White House.
Hopes of a.
Two days later he could not stand up.
One day he was racing his children around their summer home.
In 1921, at the age of thirty-nine, Roosevelt was the brightest young star in the Democratic Party.
Here, from James Tobin, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, is the story of the greatest comeback in American political history, a saga long buried in half-truth, distortion, and myth--Franklin Roosevelt\'s ten-year climb from paralysis to the White House