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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
Book Summary
Recounts the summer of 1893 when President Grover Cleveland disappeared for five days, covering up a surgery to remove cancer from his palate and jaw.
This book is about:
- Press and politics,
- Politics and government,
- Bimetallism,
- 1893,
- Depressions,
- Relations with journalists,
- Health,
- Cleveland, Grover,
- 19th century,
- History,
- United States
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A Yacht, A Mustache: How A President Hid His Tumor
July 6, 2011 In the summer of 1893 and at the beginning of an economic depression, President Grover Cleveland disappeared for four days to have secret surgery on a yacht. Author Matthew Algeo recounts the episode, and the lengths Cleveland went to to cover it up, in The President Is a Sick Man.
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