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Also by Matthew Algeo:

The President Is a Sick Man, May 2011
Hardcover
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure, May 2009
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Last Team Standing, October 2006
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THE PRESIDENT IS A SICK MAN
By: 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.

Media Buzz

PBS News Hour - July 29, 2011
Morning Edition - July 6, 2011