The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office
The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office Books
- ISBN13: 9780520260306
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Even the most powerful men in the world are human–they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ailing parents, and bury people they like. Young Richard Nixon watched two brothers die of tuberculosis, even even as doctors monitored a suspicious shadow on his own lungs. John Kennedy received last rites four times as an adult, and Lyndon Johnson suffered a “belly buster” of a heart attack. David Blumenthal and James A. Morone explore how modern presidents have wrestled with their own mortality–and how they have taken this most human experience to heart as they faced the trying politics of health care. Drawing on a trove of newly released White House tapes, on extensive interviews with White House staff, and on dramatic archival material that has only recently come to light, The Heart of Power explores the hidden ways in which presidents shape our destinies through their own experiences. Taking a close look at Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, the book shows what history can teach us as we confront the health care challenges of the twenty-first century.
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Fascinating theme. I’m a huge fan of the mentor of this author – Richard Neustadt. Neustadt’s book on Presidential power is the best I’ve ever read from an insider’s perspective.
Unfortunately, this book misspells President Obama’s first name (“Barak”), and is inconsistent in its framing of which presidents are covered in the book (i.e. GWB was not a 20th Century POTUS). This makes me give the rest of the book less consequence as to its accuracy than I would otherwise. I suspect rush to print was done to get this out even as health care reform was still a hot button come forth and before the topic was more or less moot.
Rating: 2 / 5
Simple-to-read, thorough account of health insurance legislation, from FDR to W. It provides much needed historical, leadership perspective to our current health care mess. A must if you’re serious about national policy, & delight in politics. I went through it in two nights. Very well written.
Rating: 5 / 5
David Blumenthal’s and Jame’s Morone’s extremely readable history of healthcare reform from FDR forward is a must-read even if only for the wonderful tales told that were drawn from an immense quantity of research into Presidential archives. Beyond that, it provides a well-constructed analysis of the reasons why health care reform is such a trying nut to crack and the skills needed for reform to go forward. Even as they stay away from specific policy recommendations, for very excellent reasons, it is clear that they support reform that will insure that excellent health is in reach for all and no individual is wasted.
Rating: 4 / 5
Wonderful and insightful review of the approach to national health insurance since the 1930’s by different presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt through G.Bush. In the administer, we are made to know what makes each man tick,his flaws and strengths.
We are also left to wonder some huge what if’s of national health policy as well as of possible second terms(particularly Lyndon Johnson’s). As the authors mention in the introduction, our current president would be well served if he used this book as a road map for promoting his plot. Essential text to know our current quandary.
Rating: 5 / 5
At near 500 pages in part, this well-researched book may control more historical in rank about the politics of health care than many people would care to read carefully.
After a 20-page introduction, the authors survey eleven successive presidents in eleven chapters:
(1) Franklin D. Roosevelt
(2) Harry S. Truman
(3) Dwight D. Eisenhower
(4) John F. Kennedy
(5) Lyndon B. Johnson
(6) Richard M. Nixon
(7) Jimmy Carter
(8) Ronald Reagan
(9) George H. W. Bush
(10) Bill Clinton
(11) George W. Bush
But the 12-page conclusion is worth the price of the book. In the conclusion, the authors set forth what they consider to be “eight rules for the heart of power” — rules that President Barack Obama and others in his administration might want to consider carefully as the August recess of Congress draws to a close and the battle in Congress over health-care-reform legislation resumes in earnest.
Thomas J. Farrell, author of Walter Ong’s Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication (The Hampton Press Communication Run (Media Ecology).)
Rating: 5 / 5