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Healing Richard Nixon : A Doctor's Memoir / John C. Lungren and John C. Lungren, Jr. ; with a foreword by Rick Perlstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lungren, John C., 1916-2000.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--United States--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994--Friends and associates.
- Nixon, Richard M.
- Lungren, John C., 1916-2000.
- Lungren, John C.
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994--Health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Richard M. Nixon remains an enigma even thirty years after his resignation. Of the many portraits of this complex man, none have been more intimate or revealing than this memoir from his personal physician, friend, and confidante of more than forty years, John C. Lungren, M.D. Dr. Lungren, with his son and co-author John C. Lungren Jr., portrays Nixon as a paradoxical man -- intense, compassionate, guarded, intelligent, resilient, deeply religious, enormously successful but ultimately tragic.Lungren describes his battle to restore the president's health after his resignation and reveals previo
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface by John C. Lungren Jr; Preface by John C. Lungren, M.D; Acknowledgments; 1. The Cease of Majesty; 2. From Pharaohs to Phlebitis; 3. Dread Unconcealed; 4. The Plot Thickens; 5. On the Campaign Trail I; 6. On the Campaign Trail II; 7. The Haldeman Enigma; 8. Defeating Death; 9. Judge Sirica's Medical Panel; 10. Nixon, Sinatra, Dreyfus; 11. Habeas Corpus:Nixon on Watergate and Vietnam; 12. Nixon and the Jews; 13. Nixon and Kissinger; 14. Regimen for Recovery; 15. Dreadful Summoners; 16. Nixon in China
- 17. Pat Nixon and The Final Days18. New Glory; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-201) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813159539
- 0813159539
- OCLC:
- 606953914
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