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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Gilbert, Robert E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Notes -- Index