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What FDR’s polio crusade teaches us about presidential leadership amid crisis

  • Written by Thomas Doherty, Professor of American Studies, Brandeis University
What FDR’s polio crusade teaches us about presidential leadership amid crisisPresident and Mrs. Roosevelt enjoying after-luncheon conversation with patients of the Warm Springs Foundation.Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Images

Throughout much of the last century, a lethal and terrifying virus besieged America. Then, as now, the fear of contagion gripped ordinary Americans. And then — unlike now — a president...

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