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The Heart of Power, With a New Preface : Health and Politics in the Oval Office / / David Blumenthal, James Morone



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Autore: Blumenthal David Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Heart of Power, With a New Preface : Health and Politics in the Oval Office / / David Blumenthal, James Morone Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010]
©2010
Edizione: 2nd ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (519 p.)
Disciplina: 362.10973
Soggetto topico: Federal Government
Health Policy
Leadership
Medical policy -
Policy Making
Politics
Presidents
Public Health Practice
Soggetto non controllato: american history
american presidents
anxiety
bush
carter
chronic illness
clinton
depression
disability
disease
drugs
eisenhower
fdr
george hw bush
government
grief
health care
health policy
healthcare
heart attack
history
illness
kennedy
legislature
loss
lyndon johnson
medicine
mental health
mental illness
modern presidents
mortality
nixon
nonfiction
paralysis
polio
politics
presidents
public health
public policy
reagan
roosevelt
social issues
suicide
trauma
truman
tuberculosis
white house
Persona (resp. second.): MoroneJames
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface, 2010 -- 2009 Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Chapter 2. Harry S. Truman -- Chapter 3. Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Chapter 4. John F. Kennedy -- Chapter 5. Lyndon B. Johnson -- Chapter 6. Richard Nixon -- Chapter 7. Jimmy Carter -- Chapter 8. Ronald Reagan -- Chapter 9. George Herbert Walker Bush -- Chapter 10. Bill Clinton -- Chapter 11. George W. Bush -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Even the most powerful men in the world are human-they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ailing parents, and bury people they love. Young Richard Nixon watched two brothers die of tuberculosis, even while doctors monitored a suspicious shadow on his own lungs. John Kennedy received last rites four times as an adult, and Lyndon Johnson suffered a "belly buster" of a heart attack. David Blumenthal and James A. Morone explore how modern presidents have wrestled with their own mortality-and how they have taken this most human experience to heart as they faced the difficult politics of health care. Drawing on a trove of newly released White House tapes, on extensive interviews with White House staff, and on dramatic archival material that has only recently come to light, The Heart of Power explores the hidden ways in which presidents shape our destinies through their own experiences. Taking a close look at Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, the book shows what history can teach us as we confront the health care challenges of the twenty-first century.
Titolo autorizzato: The Heart of Power, With a New Preface  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-94804-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790304003321
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