"Sunrise at Campobello" was an award winning broadway play: a 3 act play by Dore Schary which was first presented by The Theatre Guild in NYC on January 30, 1958 at the Cort Theatre.

Writer Dore Schary says that once he decided to write the play, he knew that it would end with the powerful image of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the podium at the Democratic Party nominating convention in NYC. "On June 26, 1924, FDR stood at the podium in Madison Square Garden and nominated Alfred E. Smith as the Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party."

The book/play covers 34 months in the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from the day he comes down with "infantile paralysis" (also known as poliomyelitis or polio) at Campobello Island to the day FDR "stands" to deliver the nominating speech for NY Governor, Alfred Smith.

It is the beginning of the great deception well described in Hugh Gregory Gallagher's book, "FDR's Splendid Deception." As a polio survivor, Gallagher relates well to what it takes for a paraplegic to "stand" and deliver a speech. I recommend this book, too.

"Sunrise at Campobello" was made into the movie of the same name, and it came out on video in the early 1990s. One of my favorites!