Fdr's Splendid Deception

Gallagher, Hugh Gregory

ISBN 10: 0396085210 / ISBN 13: 9780396085218

Published by Dodd Mead, New York, 1985

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New York. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dodd, Mead & Co; 1985; First . Edition. 0396085210 . Gallagher, Hugh Gregory. FDR's Splendid Deception The moving story of Roosevelt's massive disability and the intense efforts to conceal it from the public. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, First edition, 1985, 250 pp. Pictorial dust wrapper, good with moderate wear to all edges. Cream coloured hardcover boards with black titles to the spine. Very good, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to artist and sculptor Jackie Clipsham. 250 pages with index, bibliography, and reference notes. Includes several pages of black and white photographs.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pages; Signed by Author . Very Good in Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dodd, Mead & Co; 1985; First Edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fdr's Splendid Deception
• Publisher: Dodd Mead, New York
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0396085210
• ISBN 13: 9780396085218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

Gallagher, Hugh Gregory, FDR's Splendid Deception

About the Author

The author is a writer and scholar on the Washington scene. He served in the Johnson White House and as a Senate staffer. His previous books include: Black Bird Fly Away: Disabled in an Able-bodied World (Vandamere Press, 1998); By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich, 2nd Edition (Vandamere Press, 1995); Etok: A Story of Eskimo Power, (G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1975); and Advise and Obstruct: The Role of the United States Senate in Foreign Policy Decisions ( Delacorte, 1969), a Pulitzer Prize Nominee. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, People, Mainstream, and many other publications. He is a highly regarded and popular speaker nationwide on both disability and presidential history. He is the father of the Architectural Barriers Act, and considered to be the grandfather of the Disability Rights Act. Gallagher contracted paralytic polio in 1952. He was rehabilitated at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. He is paraplegic, uses a wheelchair, and lives in Cabin John, Maryland. In 1995 he was awarded the prestigious Henry B. Betts award in recognition of his lifelong contributions to disability thought.