![]() | Comment: Rigorous and enormously thought provoking. Abrams tells not only the story of the shooting itself, but, more importantly, the maneuvering to disguise Reagan's slow recovery afterwards and forestall any consideration of transferring power to the Vice President. Cited on President pages: Ronald Reagan · George Bush · George W. Bush |
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![]() | George Washington · John Adams · James Madison · John Q. Adams · John Tyler · James Polk · Franklin Pierce · James Buchanan · Abraham Lincoln · Andrew Johnson · Ulysses Grant · Rutherford Hayes · James Garfield · Grover Cleveland · William McKinley · Theodore Roosevelt · William Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Warren Harding · Calvin Coolidge · Dwight Eisenhower · John Kennedy · Lyndon Johnson · Gerald Ford · Ronald Reagan | Cited on President pages:
![]() | Comment: As reviewed in New Engl J Med. 2005;352:1055-1056. Cited on President page: Franklin Roosevelt |
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![]() | Comment: Dr. Rixey was the White House physician for both William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Cited on President pages: William McKinley · William Taft |
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![]() | Comment: LCC shelving code R703 B873 1966. Cited on President page: James Garfield |
![]() | Comment: Devotes one chapter to each President, through Clinton. Written for the layperson, well-referenced, with areas of speculation clearly identified, Dr. Zebra depends heavily on this book. Dr. Bumgarner survived the Bataan Death March and has written an unforgettable book casting a physician's eye on that experience. Cited on President pages: George Washington · John Adams · Thomas Jefferson · James Madison · James Monroe · Martin van Buren · John Tyler · Zachary Taylor · Franklin Pierce · James Buchanan · Abraham Lincoln · Ulysses Grant · Chester Arthur · Grover Cleveland · Benjamin Harrison · William Taft · Warren Harding · Herbert Hoover · Harry Truman · John Kennedy · Gerald Ford · Ronald Reagan · George Bush · William Clinton |
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![]() | Comment: Butt, an Army officer, was military aide first to President Theodore Roosevelt and then to President William Taft. On April 14, 1912, Butt was at sea aboard the Titanic returning from a European vacation that Taft had insisted he take. President Taft later said: "When I heard that part of the ship's company had gone down, I gave up hope for the rescue of Major Butt, unless by accident. I knew that he would certainly remain on the ship's deck until every duty had been performed and every sacrifice made that properly fell on one charged, as he would feel himself charged, with responsibility for the rescue of others." Taft was correct. Butt did not survive the sinking. Cited on President pages: William McKinley · William Taft |
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![]() | Comment: This book -- an immersive biography of six contenders for the 1988 Presidential election -- is simply tremendous. One thousand pages, and you really don't want it to end. Makes it clear that success or failure in running for President ultimately rests on the personality of the candidate. The victor in this particular campaign, Bush41, was at all times willing to do "what it takes" to win the Presidency. There is no better book to discover what makes people at this level tick. Cited on President page: George Bush |
![]() | Comment: This book has been roundly criticized by other physicians involved in the Kennedy case. Cited on President pages: John Kennedy · Lyndon Johnson |
![]() | Comment: Cunningham published an updated version after the Columbia tragedy. |
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![]() | Comment: Widely regarded as the best one-volume biography of Lincoln, covering his entire life. Cited on President page: George Washington |
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![]() | Comment: Distillation of Flexner's four-volume biography of Washington published from 1965 to 1972. Cited on President page: George Washington |
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![]() | Comment: Garn was the U.S. Senator from Utah who flew on the Space Shuttle in the 1980s. This book is a novel. |
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![]() | Comment: Reviewed in New Engl J Med. 2004;350:2014-2015, from which all references here are taken. |
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![]() | Comment: The Library of Congress contains more of Hoover's first-hand recollections of eight presidents. Cited on President pages: Theodore Roosevelt · Warren Harding · Calvin Coolidge |
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![]() | Comment: A vivid account of Washington, DC during the Civil War. Won the Pulitzer Prize. Cited on President pages: James Buchanan · Andrew Johnson |
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![]() | Comment: Tells great tales, but the book does not cite its sources. Cited on President pages: James Madison · William Taft |
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![]() | Comment: Later print editions have appeared, e.g. the 12th in 1998: Amazon (ISBN is 0801857422). The entire contents are freely available on the web as "Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)" The online version is more current than the printed version. |
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![]() | Comment: Maps -- in great detail -- the ancestors and descendants of American presidents through Ronald Reagan. They would have had an exhausting time with President Obama's family tree! MORE Cited on President pages: George Washington · John Adams · Thomas Jefferson · James Madison · John Q. Adams · Martin van Buren · William Harrison · Zachary Taylor · Franklin Pierce · Ulysses Grant · Chester Arthur · Grover Cleveland · Benjamin Harrison · Theodore Roosevelt · William Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Calvin Coolidge · Herbert Hoover · Franklin Roosevelt · Dwight Eisenhower · Richard Nixon |
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![]() | Comment: A marginally serious, but accurate review of presidents through 2004. Dr. Zebra is suspicious that O'Brien did not cite all of his sources properly. |
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![]() | Comment: Pendel was door-keeper at the White House from the time of Lincoln to the time of Theodore Roosevelt. Full text is available on-line at loc.gov. It is a rather dry book, and reads as if it were written by an old man. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?lhbcbbib:1:./temp/~~ammem_rEou:: Cited on President pages: Abraham Lincoln · Ulysses Grant · James Garfield · Chester Arthur · Benjamin Harrison · William McKinley |
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![]() | Comment: At one time Post worked for the CIA, profiling foreign leaders. Cited on President pages: Woodrow Wilson · John Kennedy |
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![]() | Comment: Well-written, coherent distillation of Remini's definitive three-volume biography of Jackson. Cited on President pages: Andrew Jackson · James Buchanan |
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![]() | Comment: Ira Smith was a peppery fellow who ran the White House mail room from 1897 to 1948. He started working during the administration of William McKinley and was the only mail room staffer until the volume of mail made it necessary to hire help during the administration of Franklin Roosevelt. Cited on President pages: Theodore Roosevelt · Warren Harding · Calvin Coolidge |
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![]() | Comment: More information at: http://www.physical-lincoln.com/ Cited on President page: Abraham Lincoln |
![]() | Comment: More information at: http://www.physical-lincoln.com/ Cited on President page: Abraham Lincoln |
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![]() | Comment: Stoddard was editor and owner of the New York Evening Mail from 1900 to 1925. Cited on President pages: Ulysses Grant · Rutherford Hayes · Grover Cleveland · Woodrow Wilson · Warren Harding |
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![]() | Comment: Full text is available on-line at: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4201/toc.htm |
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![]() | Comment: A wonderful, easy-to-read, beautifully written, little book, although afflicted with social conventions of its time. |