The heart of power : health and politics in the Oval Office / David Blumenthal and James A. Morone.

  • Blumenthal, David, 1948-
Date:
[2009], ©2009
  • Books

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Description

Explores 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.

Publication/Creation

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

x, 484 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

Franklin Delano Roosevelt : the enigmatic angler -- Harry S. Truman : we'll take the starch out of them; eventually -- Dwight D. Eisenhower : compassionate conservative -- John F. Kennedy : the charismatic with a stricken father -- Lyndon B. Johnson : the secret history of Medicare -- Richard Nixon : a flower that bloomed only in the dark -- Jimmy Carter : the righteous engineer -- Ronald Reagan : socialized medicine and the working stiff -- George Herbert Walker Bush : stick to the running game -- Bill Clinton : kicking the can down the road -- George W. Bush : bring it on : reforming Medicare.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JOFZ.6.AA9-10
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780520260306
  • 0520260309