FDR's Deadly Secret

Description

An orator stumbles -- Wilson's example -- Triumph over mortal matter -- Is Franklin D. Roosevelt physically fit to be President? -- A career Navy medical officer of no particular distinction -- The brown blob -- The beginning of the end -- Enter Bruenn-- but when? -- Not planning for the succession -- An avalanche of rumors -- "He'll come out of it. He always does" -- Yalta -- "Did you see this thing coming?" -- The cover-up continues -- A certain narrative -- The next deadly secret.;The death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945 sent shock waves around the world. His lifelong physician swore that the president had always been a picture of health. Later, in 1970, Roosevelt's cardiologist admitted he had been suffering from uncontrolled hypertension and that his death--from a cerebral hemorrhage--was "a cataclysmic event waiting to happen." But even this was a carefully constructed deceit, one that began in the 1930s and became acutely necessary as America approached war. In this great medical detective story and narrative of a presidential cover-up, an exhaustive study of al.