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James Tobin

Biography

James Tobin

James Tobin is an associate professor of journalism at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. A former prizewinning reporter, he earned a PhD in history from the University of Michigan. His first book, ERNIE PYLE'S WAR, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

James Tobin

Books by James Tobin

by James Tobin - History, Nonfiction, Politics

With a painstaking reexamination of original documents, James Tobin uncovers the twisted chain of accidents that left FDR paralyzed; reveals how polio recast Roosevelt’s fateful partnership with his wife, Eleanor; and shows that FDR’s true victory was not over paralysis but over the ancient stigma attached to the crippled.