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The Warm Springs Story. Legacy & Legend.
F. Martin Harmon
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Description for The Warm Springs Story. Legacy & Legend.
Num Pages: 277 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 658.
From Native American legends to resort era beginnings, from direct involvement by elite families of West Georgia to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s forty-one visits to his adopted state, and from the amazing polio generation and one of mankind’s most significant accomplishments to near closure, rebirth, and a myriad of what-might-have-beens. This is the complete story of Warm Springs, from pioneer beginnings and regional development to state and federal political intrigue, romantic suspicions and questionable ethics, social causes and lasting initiatives, civil and disability rights, medical origins, and heartwarming success stories. While the story of one of mankind’s greatest achievements, it’s still ... Read more
From Native American legends to resort era beginnings, from direct involvement by elite families of West Georgia to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s forty-one visits to his adopted state, and from the amazing polio generation and one of mankind’s most significant accomplishments to near closure, rebirth, and a myriad of what-might-have-beens. This is the complete story of Warm Springs, from pioneer beginnings and regional development to state and federal political intrigue, romantic suspicions and questionable ethics, social causes and lasting initiatives, civil and disability rights, medical origins, and heartwarming success stories. While the story of one of mankind’s greatest achievements, it’s still ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Mercer University Press United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780881464726
SKU
V9780881464726
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About F. Martin Harmon
A veteran journalist, F. Martin Harmon was most recently public relations director at Georgia’s Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation. For thirteen years he handled all communications for the historic facility founded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1927. Previously a writer at two Tennessee newspapers and sports information director at three Southern universities, Harmon was the recipient of sixteen state ... Read more
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