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Tobin (journalism, Miami Univ., OH; Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II) shows his gifts as a veteran reporter, PhD historian, and biographer in this moving page-turner. Even if aspects of the thesis—that Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio transformed him—are familiar, Tobin conveys it marvelously. He supplies context on the disease itself and efforts at patient rehabilitation, while offering balanced and perceptive sketches of FDR, his...Log In or Sign Up to Read More