As president, Roosevelt founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in 1937, a organization headed by polio victim and Roosevelt’s former law partner, Basil O’Connor.

Roosevelt contracted polio at the age of 39, and Tobin's new book explores his battle with the illness and the ways it molded his character and influenced his rise in the Democratic Party.

The scourge was infantile paralysis, or polio, and the president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was its most famous victim. First clinically described in the late 19th century and persisting deep into ...

As Tobin shows, FDR's defiant victory over polio was a measure of the man, sure. But it was just as much a crucial measure of America's willingness to accept the disabled.

Roosevelt’s polio, which struck him down just as his political star was rising, was supposed to be the end of him. The fact that it wasn’t is a self-evident matter of history.

The FDR Memorial Commission says “no,” on the grounds that FDR went to great lengths to hide his polio-induced inability to stand or walk unaided and that desire should be honored. That’s ...

A retired educator from the Newnan area was a special guest of Bradshaw-Chambers County Library’s summer reader program on ...

So as 1924 approaches, it's a presidential year, it's three years since Franklin Delano Roosevelt got polio, and he's sort of beginning to emerge as a public figure again.

In The Man He Became, historian James Tobin says, despite misimpressions to the contrary, Americans of Franklin Roosevelt's day were well-aware of his disability — it was an important part of ...