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When life strikes the president : scandal, death, and illness in the White House
- Title
- When life strikes the president : scandal, death, and illness in the White House / edited by Jeffrey A. Engel and Thomas J. Knock.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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- Description
- xi, 342 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Political corruption
- Presidents > United States > Health > Case studies
- United States
- Case studies
- Presidents > Decision making
- Presidents > Health
- Presidents > United States > Psychology > Case studies
- Presidents > Psychology
- Political corruption > United States > Case studies
- Presidents > United States > Decision making > Case studies
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A crisis of his own contrivance : Andrew Jackson's break with John C. Calhoun / Daniel Feller -- "I am president" : John Tyler, presidential succession, the crisis of legitimacy -- And the defense of presidential power / Aaron Scott Crawford -- Personal loss and Franklin Pierce's presidency / Michael Holt -- Abraham Lincoln and the death of his son Willie / Michael Burlingame -- "One long wilderness of despair" : Woodrow Wilson's stroke and the League of Nations / Thomas J. Knock -- Calvin Coolidge : "when he went the power and the glory of the presidency went with him" / Amity Shlaes -- The splendid deception of "Doctor" Roosevelt / Frank Costigliola -- The Kennedy family through sickness and death / David Nasaw -- The politics of the personal : Lyndon Johnson at home and abroad / Randall B. Woods -- A depressed and self-destructive president : Richard Nixon in the White House / Jeremi Suri -- Governing during a time of crisis : the Reagan presidency / Kiron K. Skinner -- The Clintons : the politics of the personal / William Chafe.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-4658
- ISBN
- 9780190650759
- 0190650753
- LCCN
- 2016042216
- OCLC
- 961798495
- Title
- When life strikes the president : scandal, death, and illness in the White House / edited by Jeffrey A. Engel and Thomas J. Knock.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Engel, Jeffrey A., editor.Knock, Thomas J., editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-4658