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Ward was the founding editor of Audience Magazine (1970–1973) and the editor of American Heritage Magazine (1977–1982). His 1989 biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, A First-class Temperament: the Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
In 1938, he founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, leading to the development of polio vaccines. Although historical accounts continue to refer to Roosevelt's case as polio, the diagnosis has been questioned in the context of modern medical science, with a competing diagnosis of Guillain–Barré syndrome being proposed.
Author whose work includes essays and memoirs on the subject of disability. He caught polio, aged eleven, which left him without the use of his legs. [69] Peter Levi: 1931–2000 After battling polio as a teenager, [70] Levi went on to become—among other things—a professor of poetry at Oxford, a Jesuit priest, and the author of over 40 books.
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Geoffrey Christopher Ward, FRSA (born 1954) is a British academic specialising in American literature. [1] He became Principal of Homerton College, University of Cambridge in 2013 [2] (succeeded in 2021 by Simon Woolley). [3] In 2020, the College announced that Ward would retire in September 2021 after eight years as Principal. [4] [5]
At a press conference at Mar-a-Lago Monday, President-elect Donald Trump addressed questions about vaccine policy under his administration, telling reporters Americans would still have access to ...