The mortal presidency : illness and anguish in the White House / Robert E. Gilbert.

[New York] : BasicBooks, [1992], ©1992.

xvii, 314 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

Presidential pathology and mortality -- The trauma of death : Calvin Coolidge -- Functioning in chains : Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Pain and duty : Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Illness at Camelot : John F. Kennedy -- Scars in the teflon : Ronald Reagan -- Prescriptions.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 263-303) and index