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The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House

Title : The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House
Author :
Rating : 4.71 (750 Votes)
Asin : 0823218376
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 353 Pages
Publish Date : 2015-11-04
Language : English

"There's nothing quite like buying a book for a class when the book" according to KK. Oh Gilbert. There's nothing quite like buying a book for a class when the book is written by the professor.. A Customer said Intresting for biographies of studied presidents. This book argues that the modern presidency is so stressful that it is a threat to the health of its occupants. After a short chapter on the general mortality rates of presidents, the author gives five fascinating case studies (of Presidents Coolidge, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Reagan). I don't think the author really proves his main premise: in recent times Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan have comfortably exceeded their normal life expectancies, and, for that matter, it looks like Ly. Great Book mark twain I am a grad student at Northeastern University, taking a class on The Presidency with the author of this book, Robert Gilbert. He is amazing and extremly knowledgeable on every aspect of the presidency. My classmates and I alllllll love him and agree that he is one of the best professors we have ever had.Buy his book, and if you have the chance TAKE HIS CLASS!

From Publishers Weekly Gilbert, a professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston, soberingly describes the illnesses of several 20th-century U.S. Illustrations. Noting that Calvin Coolidge and Dwight Eisenhower endured lives of illness and pain, accentuated during their time in the White House, Gilbert argues that their suffering was caused at least in part by personal grief and feelings of guilt. Gilbert contends that the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan and his cancer surgery in 1985 significantly affected his administration and likely contributed to the Iran-Contra scandal. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. presidents and examines the political and psychological repercussions of their maladies. In his thought-provoking study Gilbert calls for a reas

Gilbert looks at modern presidents including Coolidge, FDR, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Reagan. 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.. The presidency is hazardous to your helth. 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. 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

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