joining us tonight is historian, professor at miami university, james tobin. book is "the man he became" how fdr defied polio to win the presidency. it's available in bookstores and online and that means usually amazon.com. available today. great to have you with us. how did you decide to seize upon this issue and to really examine it carefully and closely and coellingly to explain franklin delano roosevelt? >> well, i think when i had read the biographies, i thought that previous biographers had gone too quickly over the polio episode. you know, we all kind of grew up with the idea that franklin roosevelt had overcome polio and gone on to be president. but i wondered had anybody really told the story of how that happened, had they gotten into the details. and had they told the story the way it really could be told. i was hoping that i might find that story and so that's what i worked on. it was difficult, because fdr was not forthcoming with his thoughts and emotions, but when you put the pieces together, there was a story there that i think hadn't been told

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al shabazz, daughter of malcolm x, present a couple of entries from the diary of malcolm x, and james tobin recounts roost's battle with polio, how fdr defied polio to win the presidency. look for these titles in become stores in the coming. week. >> this >> the best nonfiction books included this suffering and nothing to be freightenned of. another book review best nonfiction books for 2008 was jane mayer0s the dark side. the inside story of how the war on temporary turned into a war on american ideals. this is on book tv's interview program in 2008 to talk about her book. >> first of all, it gives me a sense i'm performing a service which is informing the public about something they need to know about, and i feel it is the core of why people like me become reporters, and the second thing is, it was an obsessive kind of puzzle. even from the beginning, when i started on the story about rendition, i could not believe that people were being snatched off of streets in europe and elsewhere in the world by our own government officials, wearing black hoods and putting these people on a sleek whi