Presidential courage

By John B. Moses

Book Overview

The author of more than 50 non-fiction books and a leading physician, whose lifetime hobby has been the study of American Presidents, have teamed up to document an astonishing subject. This is the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393013146
• ISBN13: 9780393013146
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: W.W. Norton
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A unique book - what if today's health was the standard then

This is a unique book, providing valuable insights into the health of our country's chief executives. It is an interesting mixture of the bizarre - how a president had a rubber prosthesis fitted in his mouth and his wife supposedly never discovered it - to Old Hickory's forever being tomented by dysentery. It makes you wonder how many of those presidents that have been judged as truly 'great' would have been denied the highest offcie of the land had we placed their helth under the 'microscope' we place our current 'candidates' for this post. Consider what Thomas Eagleton went through in 1972 when he admitted to mental illness (successfully treated) when George McGovern selcted him for his vice-Presidential running mate.(Only a 'hearbeat' away)