In Sickness and in Power: Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 YearsMethuen, 2008 - 420 páginas This study of illness in heads of government between 1901 and 2007 considers how illness and therapy - both physical and mental - affect the process of government and decision-making, leading to acts of folly, in the sense of stupidity or rashness. |
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Página 49
... Soviet Union from the Mediterranean . To look at Churchill's half sheet of paper scribbled in the Kremlin today , with Stalin's large tick of approval overshadowing Romania - of which the Soviet Union was to have 90 per cent , the ...
... Soviet Union from the Mediterranean . To look at Churchill's half sheet of paper scribbled in the Kremlin today , with Stalin's large tick of approval overshadowing Romania - of which the Soviet Union was to have 90 per cent , the ...
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... Soviet Union had reached the point when its aged leadership , stuck in the status quo , had ceased to be the fount of wisdom and had become resistant to any change . Fortunately , when Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded Chernenko , the Soviet ...
... Soviet Union had reached the point when its aged leadership , stuck in the status quo , had ceased to be the fount of wisdom and had become resistant to any change . Fortunately , when Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded Chernenko , the Soviet ...
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... Soviet Union and the United States . Part of this was the Cuban missile crisis , for which Kennedy's presidency will be remembered . On Monday 22 October 1962 , Kennedy publicly broke the news that missiles capable of striking the ...
... Soviet Union and the United States . Part of this was the Cuban missile crisis , for which Kennedy's presidency will be remembered . On Monday 22 October 1962 , Kennedy publicly broke the news that missiles capable of striking the ...
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Prime Minister Edens illness and Suez | 109 |
President Kennedys health | 141 |
The Shahs secret illness | 191 |
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