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Author | : Jay W. Murphy |
Publisher | : Leathers Pub |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2006-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781585973989 |
A fascinating history of the medical issues of presidents through the years. It explores the impact presidential health had on the president, his family, his nation - and ultimately, the world.
Author | : Kenneth R. Crispell |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1988-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822308393 |
The serious illness of three presidents—Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy—as well as the injury Ronald Reagan received in the assassination attempt upon him have revealed our woefully inadequate system for handling presidential incapacity. The authors believe that this flawed system poses a major threat to the nation, and they provide sobering reports on how the government functioned (or failed to function) during times of presidential impairment. The public was kept in the dark regarding the gravity of the presidential condition, often unaware that critical decisions were being made while the president was suffering from a severe illness. Hidden Illness in the White House contains startling new information on the severity of Roosevelt’s illness during the crucial Yalta negotiations and the fact that Kennedy suffered from Addison’s disease, a life-threatening illness, long before he was elected to the presidency. In each case the authors demonstrate that a largely successful effort was made to conceal the president’s true medical condition from the public.
Author | : Lloyd G. Douglas |
Publisher | : Children's Press(CT) |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780516244884 |
Uses easy-to-read text to introduce the White House as an American symbol.
Author | : William Seale |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781555535476 |
"These scholarly essays are full of interesting and surprising tidbits that will delight even the casual reader." -- Publishers Weekly
Author | : William O. Stoddard |
Publisher | : New York : [s.n.] |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Mrs. Elizabeth Jaffray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Presidents |
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Author | : Amy La Follette Jensen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Presidents |
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Author | : Frederick J. Ryan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781950273072 |
Author | : Edna Mary Colman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Presidents |
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Author | : Robert Schlesinger |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 595 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416565353 |
In White House Ghosts, veteran Washington reporter Robert Schlesinger opens a fresh and revealing window on the modern presidency from FDR to George W. Bush. This is the first book to examine a crucial and often hidden role played by the men and women who help presidents find the words they hope will define their places in history. Drawing on scores of interviews with White House scribes and on extensive archival research, Schlesinger weaves intimate, amusing, compelling stories that provide surprising insights into the personalities, quirks, egos, ambitions, and humor of these presidents as well as how well or not they understood the bully pulpit. White House Ghosts traces the evolution of the presidential speechwriter's job from Raymond Moley under FDR through such luminaries as Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., under JFK, Jack Valenti and Richard Goodwin under LBJ, William Safire and Pat Buchanan under Nixon, Hendrik Hertzberg and James Fallows under Carter, and Peggy Noonan under Reagan, to the "Troika" of Michael Gerson, John McConnell, and Matthew Scully under George W. Bush. White House Ghosts tells the fascinating inside stories behind some of the most iconic presidential phrases: the first inaugural of FDR ("the only thing we have to fear is fear itself ") and JFK ("ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country"), Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" and Ronald Reagan's "tear down this wall" speeches, Bill Clinton's ending "the era of big government" State of the Union, and George W. Bush's post-9/11 declaration that "whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done" -- and dozens of other noteworthy speeches. The book also addresses crucial questions surrounding the complex relationship between speechwriter and speechgiver, such as who actually crafted the most memorable phrases, who deserves credit for them, and who has claimed it. Schlesinger tells the story of the modern American presidency through this unique prism -- how our chief executives developed their very different rhetorical styles and how well they grasped the rewards of reaching out to the country. White House Ghosts is dramatic, funny, gripping, surprising, serious -- and always entertaining.