On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland vanished. He boarded a friendβs yacht, sailed into the calm blue waters of Long Island Sound, and--poof!--disappeared. He would not be heard from again for five days. What happened during those five days, and in the days and weeks that followed, was so incredible that, even when the truth was finally revealed, many Americans simply would not believe it.
The President Is a Sick Man details an extraordinary but almost unknown chapter in American history: Grover Clevelandβs secret cancer surgery and the brazen political cover-up by a politician whose most memorable quote was βTell the truth.β When an enterprising reporter named E. J. Edwards exposed the secret operation, Cleveland denied it. The public believed the βHonest President,β and Edwards was dismissed as βa disgrace to journalism.β The facts concerning the disappearance of Grover Cleveland that summer were so well concealed that even more than a century later a full and fair account has never been published. Until now.
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