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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

byMatthew Algeo

On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht and was not heard from for five days. Drawing on archival sources, narrative history, and voices from the period, the narrative gives The President Is a Sick Man a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the wherein the supposedly virtuous grover cleveland survives a secret surgery at sea and vilifies becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within history. The President Is a Sick Man emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Chicago Review Press

Publication date

2012

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781613744567