
Before polio struck, FDR was a shallow politician. After, he emerged as America's greatest president. Walter Isaacson calls this transformation "a moving personal drama" - revealing how suffering shapes extraordinary leadership and why adversity became Roosevelt's greatest strength.
著者の声を通じて本を感じる
知識を魅力的で例が豊富な洞察に変換
キーアイデアを瞬時にキャプチャして素早く学習
楽しく魅力的な方法で本を楽しむ
August 1921. A wealthy politician-charming but shallow, ambitious yet untested-goes to bed after a perfect summer day of sailing with his children. By morning, he cannot move his legs. Within days, Franklin Roosevelt, at age 39, has lost everything below his waist to polio. The nails-in-bone agony is excruciating, but the deeper pain cuts through his carefully plotted future. For a man whose entire identity rests on projecting strength and following his cousin Theodore's path to the presidency, paralysis threatens annihilation. Yet this catastrophe became the crucible that forged one of history's most consequential leaders. Before polio, Roosevelt was what we'd today call performatively pleasant-a people-pleaser who'd mastered the art of being agreeable without being genuine. His advisor Frances Perkins observed bluntly that he "didn't really like people very much." After polio, he became the president who guided America through its darkest hours with unprecedented empathy and resolve. The transformation wasn't automatic or easy. It required seven years of grueling rehabilitation, profound introspection, and the courage to reimagine what strength actually means.
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