FDR's deadly secret

FDR's deadly secret /

The death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945 sent shock waves around the world. His lifelong physician swore that the president had always been a picture of health. Later, in 1970, Roosevelt's cardiologist admitted he had been suffering from uncontrolled hypertension and that his death--from...

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Main Author: Lomazow, Steven, 1948-
Other Authors: Fettmann, Eric
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, 2009
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945 > Health.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Presidents > Disability > United States.
Brain > Tumors > Patients > United States > Biography.
People with disabilities.
Celebrities.
Melanoma.
Brain Neoplasms
Disabled Persons
Famous Persons
History, 20th Century
Melanoma
World War II
handicapped.
physically handicapped.
United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
United States
Biography
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • An orator stumbles
  • Wilson's example
  • Triumph over mortal matter
  • Is Franklin D. Roosevelt physically fit to be President?
  • A career Navy medical officer of no particular distinction
  • The brown blob
  • The beginning of the end
  • Enter Bruenn-- but when?
  • Not planning for the succession
  • An avalanche of rumors
  • "He'll come out of it. He always does"
  • Yalta
  • "Did you see this thing coming?"
  • The cover-up continues
  • A certain narrative
  • The next deadly secret.

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