Ill-Advised
In Ill-Advised: Presidential Health and Public Trust, historian Robert H. Ferrell presents powerful evidence of frightening medical cover-ups in the White House, from Grover Cleveland`s secret surgery for cancer to the questionable reporting of details on the health of both Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Malpractice, missing public records, and politically motivated cover-ups have hidden sometimes severe presidential illnesses from the American people for more than a century. A massive stroke in 1919 crippled Woodrow Wilson both mentally and physically. But it was the ensuing cover-up that paralyzed both foreign and domestic affairs, as the incompetent leader continued to serve. Certain that an ailing Franklin D. Roosevelt would never survive a fourth term, White House insiders worked frantically behind Roosevelt`s back to orchestrate the nomination of their own choice for the vice-presidential candidate. Roosevelt`s health never became a public issue, and Harry S. Truman became the thirty-third president of the United States just two months after the election, having been handpicked by a handful of politically motivated White House insiders. At the heart of Ill-Advised is important new documentation of the serious physical condition of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Using previously untapped evidence, Ferrell uncovers convincing evidence of Eisenhower`s ill health, which perhaps should have kept him from ever running for the presidency, and certainly should have kept him from running for reelection. Ferrell discusses possible cover-ups in the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, and leaves readers to draw their own conclusions about George Bush`s arrhythmic heart and thepossibility of Dan Quayle as sudden, accidental president of the United States. As the 1992 election campaign heats up, some commentators are already watching for Bush`s health to become a political issue. In a time of great crisis , writes Ferrell, a president of the United States

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