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Health and Politics in the Oval Office
University of California Press
June 2009
On Sale: June 6, 2009
494 pages
ISBN: 0520260309
EAN: 9780520260306
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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