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The Dying President : Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945 by Robert H. Ferrell (1998, Hardcover)

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In this authoritative account, Robert H. Ferrell shows how the treatment of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's illness in 1944- 1945 was managed by none other than the president himself. Although this powerful American president knew that he suffered from cardiovascular disease, he went to great lengths to hide that fact--both from his physician and from the public. Why Roosevelt disguised the nature of his illness may be impossible to discern fully. He was a secretive man who liked to assign only parts of tasks to his assistants so that he, the president, would be the only one who knew the whole story. The presidency was his life, and he did not wish to give it up. The president's duplicity, though not easily measurable, had a critical effect on his performance. Placed on a four-hour-a-day schedule by his physicians, Roosevelt could apply very little time to his presidential duties. He took long vacations in South Carolina, Warm Springs, the Catoctin Mountains, and Hyde Park, as well as lengthy journeys to Hawaii, Canada, and Yalta. Important decisions were delayed or poorly made. America's policy toward Germany was temporarily abandoned in favor of the so-called Morgenthau Plan, which proposed the "pastoralization" of Germany, turning the industrial heart of Europe into farmland. Roosevelt nearly ruined the choice of Senator Harry S. Truman as his running mate in 1944 by wavering in the days prior to the party's national convention. He negotiated an agreement with Winston Churchill on sharing postwar development of nuclear weapons but failed to let the State Department know. And, in perhaps the most profoundly unwise decision, Roosevelt accepted a fourth term when he could not possibly survive it. In his final year, a year in which he faced crucial responsibility regarding World War II and American foreign policy, Franklin D. Roosevelt failed to serve the nation as a healthy president would have. Reading like a mystery story, The Dying President clears up many of the myths and misunderstandings that have surrounded Roosevelt's last year, finally revealing the truth about this missing chapter in FDR's life.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Missouri Press
ISBN-10
0826211712
ISBN-13
9780826211712
eBay Product ID (ePID)
862998

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dying President : Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945
Author
Robert H. Ferrell
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Presidents & Heads of State, Cardiology
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Number of Pages
200 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Age Range
Up
Lc Classification Number
E807.F4 1998
Grade from
Ninth Grade
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" The Dying President is the most significant study of Roosevelt's last year. No future biography of FDR or any work that deals with his wartime actions and policies could now be written without reference to this comprehensive study."--Amos Perlmutter, " The Dying President is the most significant study of Roosevelt's last year. No future biography of FDR or any work that deals with his wartime actions and policies could now be written without reference to this comprehensive study."-Amos Perlmutter
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-045797
Dewey Decimal
973.917/092 B
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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