Review: Franklin D. Roosevelt's experience of sudden paralysis after his polio diagnosis, and a seven-year effort to recover and return to public life, is detailed in Jonathan Darman's 'Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President'
Franklin D. Roosevelt is known to all as the only president elected four times and the only one confined to a wheelchair—polio’s most famous victim. Less known is how the experience of sudden paralysis, and a seven-year effort to recover and return to public life, molded a man who remains in the inner ring of presidential greatness.
Roosevelt was nominated for national office not four but five times: A former New York state senator and assistant Navy secretary, he ran with James M. Cox on the Democratic ticket that lost to Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge in 1920. Although many glimpsed in the handsome, 6-foot-2 Roosevelt a charisma recalling his distant cousin Theodore, in truth few thought he had the same depth or gravitas.
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