Bibliograph

When life strikes the president, scandal, death, and illness in the White House, edited by Jeffrey A. Engel and Thomas J. Knock

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When life strikes the president, scandal, death, and illness in the White House, edited by Jeffrey A. Engel and Thomas J. Knock

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

When life strikes the president

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

961798495

Responsibility statement

edited by Jeffrey A. Engel and Thomas J. Knock

Sub title

scandal, death, and illness in the White House

Table Of 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 F. 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 -- 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

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