FDR's "Splendid Deception" and its Motivations

Abstract: A 6 page paper discussing FDR's efforts in hiding his paralysis from the American public in relation to Charles Smith's views of public and private behavior argued in Critique of Sociological Reasoning. Smith holds that all human behavior, including that resulting from the experience of disability, can be categorized into three levels. The experience of Franklin D. Roosevelt is used here to illustrate those levels and then proclaim that while FDR operated from all three levels, it was Level 3, the most altruistic, that could most frequently describe his behavior as related to his disability. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

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Subcatagory: Presidential Studies (U.S.)

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