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The Mortal Presidency : Illness and Anguish in the White House / Robert E. Gilbert.

Gilbert, Robert E., author.
2021
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Title
The Mortal Presidency : Illness and Anguish in the White House / Robert E. Gilbert.
Author
Gilbert, Robert E., author.
ISBN
9780823296958
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296958
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]
Copyright
©1998
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (353 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823296958 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
973/.099
Summary
The presidency is hazardous to your health. Fully two-thirds of our presidents have died before reaching their life-expectancy- despite being wealthier, better educated, and better cared for that most Americans. In Mortal Presidency, the first complete account of death and illness in the White House, Robert E. Gilbert looks at modern presidents including Coolidge, FDR, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Reagan. He shows- in some cases, for the first time- that all suffered from debilitating medical problems, physical and/or psychological, which they frequently managed to conceal from the public but which, in important ways, affected their political lives. This edition is updated to include a brief look at Presidents Clinton and Bush, both of whom suffered sudden and unpleasant indispositions while in office which to some degree affected their presidencies.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction A President Falls, Another Collapses
Chapter ONE Presidential Pathology and Mortality
Chapter TWO The Trauma of Death: Calvin Coolidge
Chapter THREE Functioning in Chains: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chapter FOUR Pain and Duty: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chapter FIVE Illness at Camelot: John F. Kennedy
Chapter SIX Ambition and Torment: Lyndon B. Johnson
Chapter SEVEN Scars in the Teflon: Ronald Reagan
Chapter EIGHT Prescriptions
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