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The Man He Became

With a searching new analysis of primary sources, NBCC Award winner James Tobin reveals how FDR's fight against polio transformed him from a callow aristocrat into the energetic, determined statesman who would rally the nation in the Great Depression and lead it through World War II.


Author:

  • James Tobin

Narrator:

  • Charles Constant

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 11 h 9 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Biographies
  • History, politics, and warfare
  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Politics

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    James Tobin

    James Tobin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography for Ernie Pyle’s War and the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight. Educated at the University of Michigan, where he earned a PhD in history, he teaches narrative nonfiction in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University in Oxford, OH.

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