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The President Is a Sick Man
Matthew Algeo
Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth
Chicago Review Press
May 2011
On Sale: May 1, 2011
272 pages ISBN: 156976350X EAN: 9781569763506 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction History
On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland vanished. He
boarded a friend’s 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
Cleveland’s secret cancer surgery and the brazen political
cover-up by a politician whose most memorable quote was
“Tell the truth.” When an enterprising reporter named E. J.
Edwards exposed the secret operation, Cleveland denied it.
The public believed the “Honest President,” and Edwards was
dismissed as “a disgrace to journalism.” 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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