Tobin, author of books about the Wright brothers and Ernie Pyle, presents a detailed, insightful history of FDR’s battle with polio, interwoven with an account of the a history of the disease, its ...
In the spring of 1944, a few months before D-Day, President Franklin D ... Unable to walk from polio, FDR was lifted from the limo and placed in his wheelchair. “He immediately put up a happy ...