Hugh Gregory Gallagher (1932–2004)

Autor(a) de FDR's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt's Massive Disability-And the Intense Efforts to Conceal It from the Public

7 Works 165 Membros 3 Críticas

Obras por Hugh Gregory Gallagher

By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich (1990) 30 exemplares

Etok: A Story of Eskimo Power (1974) 12 exemplares

Black Bird Fly Away: Disabled in an Able-Bodied World (1998) 10 exemplares

Nothing to Fear: FDR in Photographs (2001) 8 exemplares

Advise and Obstruct; the Role of the United States Senate in Foreign Policy Decisions (1969) 3 exemplares

FDR's Splendid Deception by Hugh Gregory Gallagher (1985-04-30) (1843) 1 exemplar

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a ler (4) Alasca (4) Alemanha (4) Americans with Disabilities Act (1) Architectural Barriers Act (1) Biografia (18) Bioética (2) buy (1) death and dying (2) Deficiência (3) Developmentally Disabled Persons (2) disabilities (5) Eugenia (2) Eutanásia (4) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (13) Genocídio (2) Government/Criminal Justice (3) Grande Depressão (2) Health Care for Specific Diseases/Groups (3) história (17) História americana (7) Holocausto (6) lido (5) Nazi doctors (2) Nazis (2) Não ficção (5) Patient Relationships (3) polio (8) Presidente (9) Presidente dos Estados Unidos (7) Prolongation of Life and Euthanasia (2) Right of the Institutionalized to Treatment (2) Roosevelt (7) Roosevelt Franklin D. (3) Segunda Guerra Mundial (6) Sociology of Health Care (2) Século XX (2) T-4 (2) Third Reich (2) Torture and Genocide (2)

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Nome canónico: Gallagher, Hugh Gregory
Data de nascimento: 1932-10-18
Data de falecimento: 2004-07-13
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: USA

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FDR's Splendid Deception por Hugh Gregory Gallagher

A fascinating and revealing story of the daily struggle Roosevelt went through to prove the country that he was able bodied and capable of leading the nation. Reading this increases one understanding and persception of the physically challenged and will inspire support for all necessary accomidations.

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MarthaL | 2 outras críticas | Nov 24, 2009 |

FDR's Splendid Deception por Hugh Gregory Gallagher

Most biographers of FDR treat his bout with polio as an episode in his life, something worthy of mention but not much more. Gallagher, himself a paraplegic polio (he prefers that term to "polio victim" or "survivor"), points out how impossible it would be for paraplegia, which affects every minute of a person's day, the attitudes of others, and a person's self-concept, not to be the central fact of Roosevelt's adult life. In fact, the myth that polio was an inconvenience that FDR overcame was a carefully nurtured construct. The author's insight makes this a uniquely perspicacious biography.… (mais)

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muumi | 2 outras críticas | Aug 4, 2009 |

Fdr's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of… por Hugh Gregory Gallagher

Wonderful book with great insight to the manipulations of FDR and his administration---as well as the difference of that era's media, who refused to make his handicap visible.