the president is a sick man by matthew algeo

Delightfully entertaining and informative.' -Mary Cappello, author of Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them 'In seemingly effortless prose, Matthew Algeo tells the intricate story of one of the most unusual operations in American history. 'Riveting and engrossing as the best detective novel, The President Is a Sick Man is an exceedingly well-documented and overdue account of one of the great presidential cover-ups of all time.' -James McGrath Morris, author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power He is the author of Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip, which was one of the Washington Post’s Best Books of 2009, and Last Team Standing: How the Steelers and the Eagles-“The Steagles”-Saved Pro Football During World War II, which won the 2006 Nelson Ross Award for best pro football historiography. Matthew Algeo is a public radio reporter. The public believed the “Honest President,” and Edwards was dismissed as “a disgrace to journalism.” The facts concerning the disappearance of Grover Cleveland that summer were so well concealed that even more than a century later a full and fair account has never been published. Edwards exposed the secret operation, Cleveland denied it. The President Is a Sick Man details an extraordinary but almost unknown chapter in American history: Grover Cleveland’s secret cancer surgery and the brazen political cover-up by a politician whose most memorable quote was “Tell the truth.” When an enterprising reporter named E. What happened during those five days, and in the days and weeks that followed, was so incredible that, even when the truth was finally revealed, many Americans simply would not believe it. He would not be heard from again for five days. He boarded a friend’s yacht, sailed into the calm blue waters of Long Island Sound, and-poof!-disappeared. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland vanished.

The president is a sick man by matthew algeo