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The president is a sick man : wherein the supposedly virtuous Grover Cleveland survives a secret surgery at sea and vilifies the courageous newspaperman who dared expose the truth / Matthew Algeo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Algeo, Matthew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depressions--1893--United States.
- Depressions.
- Bimetallism--United States--History--19th century.
- Bimetallism.
- Press and politics--United States--History--19th century.
- Press and politics.
- United States--Politics and government--1893-1897.
- United States.
- Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908--Health.
- Cleveland, Grover.
- Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908--Relations with journalists.
- Edwards, E. Jay (Elisha Jay), 1847-1924.
- Edwards, E. Jay.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Chicago Review Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched exposé. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend's yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a team of doctors removed a cancerous tumor from the president's palate along with much of his upper jaw. When an enterprising reporter named E. J. Edwards exposed the secret operation, Cleveland denied it and Edwards was consequently dismissed as a disgrace to journalism. Twenty-four years later, one of the president's doctors finally revealed the incr
- Contents:
- The operation
- A rough spot
- Big Steve
- The dread disease
- Dr. Keen
- The Oneida
- The scoop
- The cover-up
- The newspaperman
- Exposed
- Liar
- Vindication
- Aftermath
- The truth (at last)
- Postmortem.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-56976-874-9
- OCLC:
- 731646793
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