The heart of power
Subtitle: health and politics in the Oval Office
By: David Blumenthal and James A. Morone.
Contributors: Morone, James A., 1951-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520260306
Subjects: Medical policy -- United States -- History; Presidents -- United States -- Health; Health Policy -- history -- United States; Federal Government -- history -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; History, 21st Century -- United States; Leadership -- United States; Policy Making -- United States; Politics -- United States; Public Health Practice -- history -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt : the enigmatic angler; title: Harry S. Truman : we'll take the starch out of them; eventually; title: Dwight D. Eisenhower : compassionate conservative; title: John F. Kennedy : the charismatic with a stricken father; title: Lyndon B. Johnson : the secret history of Medicare; title: Richard Nixon : a flower that bloomed only in the dark; title: Jimmy Carter : the righteous engineer; title: Ronald Reagan : socialized medicine and the working stiff; title: George Herbert Walker Bush : stick to the running game; title: Bill Clinton : kicking the health care can down the road; title: Bring it on : George W. Bush reforms Medicare.