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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... involved in preparing for the Ardennes offensive and still in control of the military . Following the bomb explosion in July 1944 , Hitler began to use cocaine habitually , both as a 10 per cent concentration frequently swabbed on to ...
... involved in preparing for the Ardennes offensive and still in control of the military . Following the bomb explosion in July 1944 , Hitler began to use cocaine habitually , both as a 10 per cent concentration frequently swabbed on to ...
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... involved in plotting to assassinate him . One of Kennedy's younger advisers on Latin America , Richard Goodwin , described the atmosphere at the meetings on whether to invade Cuba : ' Beneath the uninformed acquiescence , there was also ...
... involved in plotting to assassinate him . One of Kennedy's younger advisers on Latin America , Richard Goodwin , described the atmosphere at the meetings on whether to invade Cuba : ' Beneath the uninformed acquiescence , there was also ...
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... involved in the statement and the patient does not want the truth told . Gubler could have tried either to persuade Mitterrand to abandon his promise to release bulletins , as Giscard d'Estaing had done , or to insist that they could go ...
... involved in the statement and the patient does not want the truth told . Gubler could have tried either to persuade Mitterrand to abandon his promise to release bulletins , as Giscard d'Estaing had done , or to insist that they could go ...
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Prime Minister Edens illness and Suez | 109 |
President Kennedys health | 141 |
The Shahs secret illness | 191 |
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