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Laddar... The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth (2011)av Matthew Algeo
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I went in with low expectations of this book--after a while many popular histories of things about presidents read the same, and I've read many of them--but this was a surprise, mostly in how quickly and easily it read. It does suffer in some ways from that popular white history trope of the odd dive into a tidbit that really isn't necessary to the story, but is still potentially interesting to the reader (all of the details about newspaper battles were not necessarily critical to the entire story, I would argue, but I get why they're in there, for example.) Overall it was, like I said, a quick and easy read, and fairly enjoyable for a book in this kind of genre. If these kinds of books are already your thing, you'll definitely enjoy this! inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched expose . On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend's yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a team of doctors removed a cancerous tumor from the president's palate along with much of his upper jaw. When an enterprising reporter named E. J. Edwards exposed the secret operation, Cleveland denied it and Edwards was consequently dismissed as a disgrace to journalism. Twenty-four years later, one of the president's doctors finally revealed the incr Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The biography of Grover Cleveland was briefly provided up to the time of the surgery - enough to appreciate his history. The context of the country's financial plight and the social perceptions were fully laid out. Cleveland's subsequent health and politics were added only to the amount necessary to understand the ramifications of his surgery.
This story was tightly woven and very readable without a lot of extra facts and meanderings. The only thing that would have been nice to have while reading this story would have been a concise timeline. The author does provide a "cast of characters," but some of the dates were difficult to follow since he would indicate them by stating "12 years later." ( )