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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.
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.
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.
The actor and polio survivor called out a "nightmare" report on Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Mia Farrow Hits RFK Jr. With 'Terrifying' Memory Of Polio ...
The "Megalopolis" director contracted polio around the age of 9 and was left bedridden and paralyzed for a portion of his childhood."I remember that night. I was feverish and they took me to a ...
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"I don't want the doctor's death. I want to have my own freedom." [44] — Rainer Maria Rilke, Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist (29 December 1926) "We fought true." [128] — Lala VC, Indian World War I Victoria Cross recipient (23 March 1927), dying of polio
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