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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

The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
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.

To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
by James Tobin - History, Nonfiction