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Abbott, Lawrence F. (ed.). The Letters of Archie Butt: Personal Aide to President Roosevelt. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924.
Presidents · William Taft
Abrams, Herbert L. "The President Has Been Shot": Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment in the Aftermath of the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. ISBN 0-393-03042-3 @ Amazon Presidents · Ronald Reagan · George Bush · George W. Bush
Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower: Volume One: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect: 1890-1952. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. ISBN 0-671-44069-1 @ Amazon Presidents · Dwight Eisenhower
Anonymous. Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics. New York: Warner Books, 1996. ISBN 0446604275 @ Amazon "Anonymous" was later revealed to be Joel Klein.
Presidents · James Polk
Barker, Charles E. With President Taft in the White House. Chicago: A. Kroch and Son, 1947.
Presidents · William Taft
Barone, MA (ed). The Harriet Lane Handbook: A Manual for Pediatric House Officers. St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book. ISBN 0815149441 @ Amazon Presidents · James Buchanan
Bean, Alan; Chaikin, Andrew. Apollo: An Eyewitness Account by Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker Alan Bean. Shelton, CT: Greenwich Workshop Press, 1998. ISBN 0867130504 @ Amazon
Bean, Alan; Fraknoi, Beverly. My Life as an Astronaut. New York: Pocket Books, 1988. ISBN 0671634526 @ Amazon
Bollet, Alfred Jay. Plagues and Poxes: The Impact of Human History on Epidemic Disease. Revised edition. New York: Demos, 2004. ISBN 1-888799-79-X @ Amazon As reviewed in New Engl J Med. 2005;352:1055-1056.
Presidents · Franklin Roosevelt
Borman, Frank; Serling, Robert J.. Countdown: An Autobiography. New York: William Morrow, 1988. ISBN 0688079296 @ Amazon
Bornet, Vaughn Davis. The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. University Press of Kansas, 1983. ISBN 0700602429 @ Amazon See chapter XII, "I've Gone the Distance."
Presidents · Lyndon Johnson
Boulware MH. Snoring: New Answers to an Old Problem. Rockaway, NJ: American Faculty Press, 1974.
Cited by: Fairbanks DNF. Snoring: an overview with historical perspectives. Pages 1-16 in: Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea. 2nd ed. Fairbanks, David N. F. and Fujita, Shiro (eds.). NY: Raven Press, 1994.
Presidents · Theodore Roosevelt
Braisted, William C.; Bell, William Hemphill; Rixey, Presley Marion. The Life Story of Presley Marion Rixey: Surgeon General, U. S. Navy 1902-1910: Biography and Autobiography. Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1930.
Rixey was the White House physician for both William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
Presidents · William McKinley · William Taft
Britton, Nan. The President's Daughter. New York: Elizabeth Ann Guild, Inc., 1927.
Author claims that Harding fathered an out-of-wedlock daughter with her in 1919, while he was a member of the Senate.
Presidents · Warren Harding
Email to Dr. Zebra Sept. 15, 2005
Bromley wrote: "Taft never drove. He always had a driver. His driver in Washington in the Twenties was named Tom Ford." It is not clear, however, when Ford was hired or if he was behind the wheel when this incident occurred.
Brooks, Stewart M. Our Murdered Presidents: The Medical Story. New York: Frederick Fell, 1966.
LCC call number R703 B873 1966.
Presidents · James Garfield · William McKinley
Butt, Archibald W. Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide. Garden City, NY: Doubleday (1930). Volume 1: pages 1-432. Volume 2: pages 433-862.
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.
Presidents · William McKinley · William Taft
Carpenter, M. Scott; Cooper, L. Gordon Jr.; Glenn, John H. Jr.; Grissom, Virgil I.; Schirra, Walter M. Jr.; Shepard, Alan B. Jr.; Slayton, Donald K.. We Seven. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962.
Carpenter, M. Scott; Stoever, Kris. For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut. New York: Harcourt, 2002. ISBN 0151004676 @ Amazon
Coletta, Paolo E. The Presidency of William Howard Taft. Lawrence, KS: The University Press of Kansas, 1973. ISBN 7006-0096-5 @ Amazon Presidents · William Taft
Crenshaw, Charles A.; Hansen, Jens; Shaw, J. Gray. JFK: Conspiracy of Silence. New York: Signet, 1992. ISBN 0-451-40346-0 @ Amazon This book has been roundly criticized by other physicians involved in the Kennedy case.
Presidents · John Kennedy · Lyndon Johnson
Davis, Oscar King. Released for Publication: Some Inside Political History of Theodore Roosevelt and his Times 1898-1918. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925.
Presidents · Theodore Roosevelt
Drury, Robert; Clavin, Tom. Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. ISBN 0871139480 @ Amazon Presidents · Gerald Ford
Ferrell, Robert H. Dear Bess; The Letters of Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959. New York: W.W. Norton, 1983.
Presidents · Harry Truman
Fisher, Jack. Stolen Glory: The McKinley Assassination. Alamar Books, 2001.
Presidents · William McKinley
Fishman RS; Da Silveira A. Lincoln's craniofacial microsomia. Arch Ophthalmol. 2007; 125: 1126-1130.
· Abraham Lincoln
Flexner, James Thomas. Washington: The Indispensible Man. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. ISBN 0-316-28616-8 @ Amazon Distillation of Flexner's four-volume biography of Washington published from 1965 to 1972.
Presidents · George Washington
Frank, Justin A. Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. NY: Regan Books (HarperCollins), 2004. ISBN 0060736704 @ Amazon Presidents · George W. Bush
Freedman, Nancy M. Joshua: Son of None. New York: Delacorte Press, 1973.
We don't normally cite fiction, but this is an intriguing novel about cloning and the assassination of JFK. The book starts in the emergency room at Parkland Memorial Hospital. The President has just been pronounced dead. Unable to accept this, a young physician on the scene removes some of Kennedy's lung tissue and puts it in liquid nitrogen. Many years later, after cloning technology has evolved, he approaches a wealthy industrialist named Kellogg with the idea of growing a new JFK. He recognizes, however, that to replicate the kind of man Kennedy was, the clone's upbringing and formative experiences will have to match JFK's. Thus, Joshua Francis Kellogg's life is carefully scripted with analogs to the death of Kennedy's older brother, the PT-109 incident, and so on. Among Kennedy's medical history, only his bad back is mentioned. Amazon Presidents · John Kennedy
Gandt, Robert. Bogeys and Bandits: The Making of a Fighter Pilot. New York: Penguin, 1997. ISBN 0-14-02-6412-4 @ Amazon
Garn, Jake. Night Launch. New York: William Morrow, 1989. ISBN 0688067174 @ Amazon Garn was the U.S. Senator from Utah who flew on the Space Shuttle in the 1980s. This book is a novel.
Grayson, CT. Woodrow Wilson -- An Intimate Memoir. New York: Holt, Rhinehart, Winston, 1960.
Grayson was Wilson's physician during his entire tenure as President. No presidential physician before or since Grayson has had as close a relationship with the Chief Executive. It is remarkable that, in his book, Grayson devotes only one paragraph to Wilson's stroke (page 100).
Presidents · Woodrow Wilson
Halstead, Murat. The Illustrious Life of William McKinley, Our Martyred President. 1901.
Presidents · James Garfield · William McKinley
Heimel, Cynthia. Combover Congress: how can we trust our leaders to manage impeachment when they can't even manage their hair?. Salon.com. Feb. 3, 1999.
Caveat emptor: no written source for these statements is known to Dr. Zebra. Available on the web at: http://www.salon.com/news/1999/02/03newsb.html · Ronald Reagan · George Bush
Helm, Katherine. The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928.
Presidents · Andrew Johnson
Henriques, Peter R. The Death of George Washington: He Died as He Lived. Mt. Vernon, VA: The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, 2000. ISBN 0-931917-035-2 @ Amazon Presidents · George Washington
Herndon, William H. and Weik, Jesse W. Herndon's Life of Lincoln. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1942 (originally published 1888).
Presidents · Abraham Lincoln
Hewitt, D. Tell Me a Story: 50 Years and 60 Minutes. New York: Public Affairs, 2001. ISBN 1586480170 @ Amazon Actually, I heard this statement in an interview of Hewitt conducted by Terry Gross on the NPR radio program Fresh Air on April 10, 2001. Hewitt was publicizing his new book, so it seems reasonable to conclude that the Nixon story is somewhere in the book. Hewitt is best known as the producer of the 60 Minutes television show.
Presidents · Richard Nixon
Hicks, F. C. William Howard Taft, Yale Professor of Law & New Haven Citizen. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1945.
Presidents · William Taft
Hooper, Gordon R. The Soviet Cosmonaut Team. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: GRH Publications, 1986. ISBN 0-9511312-0-6 @ Amazon
Hoover, Irwin Hood (Ike). 42 Years in the White House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934.
The Library of Congress contains more of Hoover's first-hand recollections of eight presidents.
Presidents · Theodore Roosevelt · Warren Harding · Calvin Coolidge
Howe. M. A. DeWolfe. George von Lengerke Meyer: His Life and Public Services. NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920.
Meyer was Postmaster General under Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of the Navy under William Howard Taft.
Presidents · Grover Cleveland
James, Marquis. The Life of Andrew Jackson. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1938.
A wonderful book that won the Pulitzer Prize for biography. It is actually composed of two books that were originally published separately: The Border Captain and Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President.
Presidents · Andrew Jackson
James, Marquis. Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, unknown year (originally published in 1937 by Bobbs-Merrill).
Presidents · Andrew Jackson · Martin van Buren · William Harrison
Johnston, RS et al (eds). Biomedical Results of Apollo (NASA SP-368). Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1975.
Keen, William Williams. The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1893. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1917.
The corresponding magazine article was published in the Sept. 22, 1917 Saturday Evening Post on pages 24-55.
Presidents · Grover Cleveland
Kelly, Fred. America's Astronauts and Their Indestructable Spirit. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Tab Books, 1986. ISBN 0-8306-8396-8 @ Amazon
Kelly, Virginia. Leading with My Heart. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994. ISBN 0671888005 @ Amazon This was reported by a reader. I have not checked the reference myself.
Presidents · William Clinton
Kraft, Christopher. Flight: My Life in Mission Control. New York: Dutton, 2001. ISBN 0525945717 @ Amazon
Kunhardt DM, Kunhardt PB Jr. Twenty Days: A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Twenty Days and Nights That Followed. New York: Castle Books, 1965.
Presidents · Andrew Johnson
Lamon, Ward Hill. Recollections of Abraham Lincoln. Washington, DC: Dorothy Lamon Teillard, 1911.
Presidents · James Buchanan · Abraham Lincoln
Lasby, Clarence G. Eisenhower's Heart Attack: How Ike Beat Heart Disease and Held onto the Presidency. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1997. ISBN 0-7006-0822-2 @ Amazon Presidents · Dwight Eisenhower
Ledgin, Norm. Diagnosing Jefferson: Evidence of a Condition that Guided his Beliefs, Behavior, and Personal Associations. Arlington, TX: Future Horizons, 2000. ISBN 1885477600 @ Amazon Presidents · Thomas Jefferson
Leech, Margaret. Reveille in Washington. Chicago: Time-Life Books, 1962 (Original (C) 1941). ISBN 0-8094-3556-X @ Amazon A vivid account of Washington, DC during the Civil War. Won the Pulitzer Prize.
Presidents · Andrew Johnson
Leish, Kenneth W. (ed.) and other American Heritage Editors. The American Heritage Pictorial History of the Presidents of the United States. New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1968 (in two volumes). ISBN B000AQH7Z0 @ Amazon Presidents · Benjamin Harrison
Manners, William. TR and Will: A Friendship that Split the Republican Party. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1969.
Presidents · Benjamin Harrison · Theodore Roosevelt · William Taft
McElroy, Robert. Grover Cleveland: The Man and the Statesman. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923.
Presidents · Grover Cleveland
McIntire, RT. White House Physician. New York: GP Putnam's Sons, 1946.
McIntire was FDR's White House physician. Today, there is a street named after him at the Naval Hospital complex in San Diego.
Presidents · Franklin Roosevelt
McKusick, Victor A. Mendelian Inheritance in Man. 9th ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
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.
Presidents · John Adams · John Q. Adams · Abraham Lincoln · John Kennedy · James Carter
Mitchell, Edgar D. The Way of the Explorer. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. ISBN 0399141618 @ Amazon
Myers, James E. The Amazing Saber Duel of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln-Herndon Building, 1968.
Cited by Gary.
Presidents · Abraham Lincoln
Nevins, Allan. Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1933.
Won the Pulitzer Prize for biography.
Presidents · Grover Cleveland
Nevins, Allan (ed.). The Letters of Grover Cleveland: 1850-1908. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933.
Presidents · Grover Cleveland
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1985/71385b.htm
This letter is deposited in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. The online version of the letter has been incorrectly annotated by the Library staff to underplay the seriousness of the condition Reagan had. The annotation says the operation was to remove a polyp, when it was actually to remove a malignant cancer well past the polyp stage.
http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/
The Massachusetts Historical Society has searchable transcriptions of Adams' letters and autobiography available online. Letters written by his wife are also included. One of variegate porphyria's hallmarks is urine that turns red after a time. On Dec. 15, 2003 Dr. Zebra searched for the following terms in the documents above, without finding any references to Adams' urine: "urin*", "make water", "piss*", "color" (which also included colour), and "discharg*".
http://www.virginia.edu/gwpapers/faq/gwteeth.html
Picture of a set of Washington's dentures, complete with springs.
O'Brien, Cormac. Secret Lives of the US Presidents: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the Men of the White House. Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2004. ISBN 1-931686-57-2 @ Amazon 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.
O'Leary, Brian. The Making of an Ex-Astronaut. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
Parenti, Michael. History as Mystery. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1999. ISBN 0872863573 @ Amazon Pages 209-240 discuss Taylor's demise and the 1991 testing for toxic substances. Dr. Zebra has not read this book. Apparently, however, Parenti criticizes the arsenic testing performed on Taylor's hair because the arsenic concentration was reported as an average over the entire hair shaft. This would indeed tend to underestimate the arsenic concentration if Taylor had been poisoned, because if Taylor had been poisoned, arsenic would have been deposited only in the part of the hair that grew between the time of the poisoning and death -- supposedly just a few days. Thus, only the smallest bit of hair nearest the scalp would have arsenic and the rest of each hair shaft would be arsenic-free. The concentration of arsenic in the entire hair shaft is therefore irrelevant, and only the concentration nearest the scalp matters. This value was apparently not reported.
Presidents · Zachary Taylor
Park, Bert Edward. The Impact of Illness of World Leaders. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. ISBN 0-8122-8005-9 @ Amazon Presidents · Woodrow Wilson
Parton, James. Life of Andrew Jackson. New York: Mason Brothers, 1861.
The first of the multi-volume Jackson biographies. Three volumes.
Presidents · Andrew Jackson
Pogue, William. How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space? 2nd edition. New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 1999. ISBN 031287295X @ Amazon
Post, Jerrold M. and Robins, Robert S. When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-300-06314-8 @ Amazon At one time Post worked for the CIA, profiling foreign leaders.
Presidents · Woodrow Wilson · John Kennedy
Remini, Robert V. The Life of Andrew Jackson. New York: Penguin, 1990 (hardback 1988). ISBN 0-14-013267-8 @ Amazon Well-written, coherent distillation of Remini's definitive three-volume biography of Jackson.
Presidents · Andrew Jackson · James Buchanan
Roueché, Berton. Eleven Blue Men and Other Narratives of Medical Detection. New York: Berkley Medallion, 14th printing, 1968 (orig. published 1955).
A wonderful book!
Presidents · Harry Truman
Russell, Francis. The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
Presidents · Theodore Roosevelt · Warren Harding
Shepard, Alan B. and Slayton, Donald K. Moonshot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon. Atlanta: Turner Publishing, 1994. ISBN 1878685546 @ Amazon
Shutes, Milton H. Lincoln and the Doctors: A Medical Narrative of the Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Pioneer Press, 1933.
Presidents · Abraham Lincoln
Slayton, Donald K. Deke!: U.S. Manned Space Flight from Mercury to the Shuttle. New York: Forge: St Martin's Press, 1994. ISBN 031285918X @ Amazon
Smith, Gene. When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1964.
Presidents · Woodrow Wilson
Smith, Ira R. T.; Morris, Joe Alex. "Dear Mr. President:" The Story of Fifty Years in the White House Mail Room. New York: Julian Messner, 1949.
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.
Presidents · Theodore Roosevelt · William Taft · Warren Harding · Calvin Coolidge · Herbert Hoover
Sontag, Sherry and Drew, Christopher. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage. New York: Public Affairs, 1998. ISBN 1-891620-08-8 @ Amazon
Sotos, John G. The Physical Lincoln: Finding the Genetic Cause of Abraham Lincoln's Height, Homeliness, Pseudo-Depression, and Imminent Cancer Death. Mt. Vernon, VA: Mt. Vernon Book Systems, 2008.
More information at: http://www.physical-lincoln.com/ Presidents · Abraham Lincoln
Stafford, Thomas P.; Cassutt, Michael. We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002. ISBN 1588340708 @ Amazon
Sullivan, Mark. Our Times: 1900-1925 (Six volumes). New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1926-1940.
Presidents · William Taft
Summers, Anthony; Dorril, Stephen. Honeytrap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (91 Clapham High St. SW4 7TA), 1987. ISBN 0-297-79122-2 @ Amazon Much sensationalism and drivel has been written about JFK. Thus, it is very hard for anyone devoting less than full time to Kennedy studies to discern what is credible and what is not. This book strikes me as containing a mixture of credible, verifiable statements and statements best treated with skepticism.
Presidents · John Kennedy
Taft, Horace Dutton. Memories and Opinions. New York: Macmillan, 1947.
Presidents · William Taft
Taft, Mrs. William Howard (Helen Herron Taft). Recollections of Full Years. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1914.
Presidents · William Taft
Taft, William Howard. Papers of William Howard Taft. On file in the Library of Congress and selected other research libraries.
Presidents · William Taft
Tarbell, Ida. Abraham Lincoln and His Ancestors. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska, 1997.
Originally published 1924 as In the Footsteps of the Lincolns.
Presidents · Abraham Lincoln
Titov, Gherman. I am Eagle. ??.
Travell, Janet. Office Hours: Day and Night. Cleveland, OH: New American Library, 1968.
Travell was one of Kennedy's physicians during his Presidency. Although all autobiographies are inherently narcissistic, the level in this one is tough to stomach -- almost as bad as Jerry Linenger's, in fact.
Presidents · John Kennedy
Watson, James. As I Knew Them: Memoirs of James E. Watson. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1936.
Presidents · William Taft
Weinstein, Edwin A. Woodrow Wilson: A Medical and Psychological Biography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.
Presidents · Woodrow Wilson
White, Paul Dudley. Heart Disease. (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan, 1944; 4th printing May 1946.
Presidents · Harry Truman
Wilbur, Ray Lyman; with Robinson, Edgar Eugene and Edwards, Paul Carroll (eds.). The Memoirs of Ray Lyman Wilbur 1875-1949. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1960.
Presidents · Warren Harding
