{"id":946,"date":"2015-06-10T17:48:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T21:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/?p=946"},"modified":"2015-06-10T17:48:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T21:48:01","slug":"the-complex-legacy-of-franklin-delano-roosevelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"The Complex Legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FDR_in_1933.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-947\" alt=\"FDR_in_1933\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FDR_in_1933.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a>&#8220;&#8216;That&#8217;s what presidents do these days,&#8217; we think nowadays, &#8216;They cover things up.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James Tobin, professor of\u00a0Media, Journalism and Film at Miami University and speaker of the above quotation, offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Man-He-Became-Presidency\/dp\/0743265157\">The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency<\/a>,\u00a0a fascinating look into the presidency of\u00a0Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one that seeks to discover why a belief has arisen in the past few decades that there was a conspiracy to keep quiet about Roosevelt&#8217;s polio.<\/p>\n<p>Tobin&#8217;s research into the changing legacy of FDR leads him to hypothesize that scandals and cover-ups by presidents from JFK onwards have jaded our views towards presidents, making the American public all too ready to believe that conspiracies exist at all levels, now and in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Tobin will speak at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thurberhouse.org\/literary-picnics-2015-season.html\">Thurber House<\/a> on June 17.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Craft_2015-6-10-JamesTobin.mp3\">Listen in<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about FDR and how he learned to live with polio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9488\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-946-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Craft_2015-6-10-JamesTobin.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Craft_2015-6-10-JamesTobin.mp3\">http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Craft_2015-6-10-JamesTobin.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Craft_2015-6-10-JamesTobin.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=946-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Craft_2015-6-10-JamesTobin.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft_2015-6-10-JamesTobin.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8216;That&#8217;s what presidents do these days,&#8217; 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