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Franklin Roosevelt instinctively understood that a politician of his era who was unable to control his own body would be perceived as unable to control the body politic. He therefore took great care to hide his polioinduced lameness both visually and verbally. In FDR's Body Politics, Houck and Kiewe analyze the silences surrounding Roosevelt's disability, the words he chose to portray himself and his policies as powerful and healthgiving, and the methods he used to maximize the appearance of physical strength.

Public opinion --- English language --- Presidents --- People with disabilities --- Human body --- Rhetoric --- Physical fitness --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Endurance, Physical --- Fitness, Physical --- Physical endurance --- Physical stamina --- Stamina, Physical --- Exercise --- Health --- Physical education and training --- Sports sciences --- Rhetoric. --- Social aspects --- History --- Political aspects --- Roosevelt, Franklin D. --- Ruzvelʹt, Franklin, --- Rūzvilt, Franklin Dilānū, --- Rūzfilt, Franklin Dilānū, --- Lo-ssu-fu, --- Luosifu, --- F. D. R. --- R., F. D. --- FDR --- רוזוועלט, פראנקלין ד. --- רוזוועלט, --- Roosevelt, F. --- Roosevelt, F. D. --- Public opinion. --- Language. --- Health. --- United States --- Politics and government --- Germanic languages

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Sociology of minorities --- Human rights --- Lecture --- Racism --- Women --- Blackness --- Book --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States of America

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Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972 conventions, to say nothing of addresses she gave closer to home, or with Malcolm X in Harlem, or even at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus. Until now, dozens of Hamer's speeches have been buried in archival collections and in the basements of movement veterans. After years of comb

African Americans --- Civil rights movements --- Civil rights --- History --- United States --- Mississippi --- Race relations