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The Heart of Power, With a New Preface: Health and Politics in the Oval Office
David Blumenthal
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Description for The Heart of Power, With a New Preface: Health and Politics in the Oval Office
Paperback. 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, this title shows what history can teach us as we confront the health care challenges of the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 500 pages, 27 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 650.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520268098
SKU
V9780520268098
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About David Blumenthal
David Blumenthal was until recently the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has advised Democratic presidential candidates from Michael Dukakis to Barack Obama, and now works on health issues for the Obama Administration. James A. Morone is Professor and Chair of Political Science ... Read more
Reviews for The Heart of Power, With a New Preface: Health and Politics in the Oval Office
"A riveting history of health-care politics."
Atul Gawande New Yorker "A book that sets a standard for the study of the presidency and of health policy." Congress & The Presidency "This timely and insightful book puts Barack Obama's current quest for universal health insurance in historical context and gives new meaning to the audacity of hope."
Robert B. ... Read more
Atul Gawande New Yorker "A book that sets a standard for the study of the presidency and of health policy." Congress & The Presidency "This timely and insightful book puts Barack Obama's current quest for universal health insurance in historical context and gives new meaning to the audacity of hope."
Robert B. ... Read more