24.B.) The lies and secrets of Grover Cleveland, an interview with Matthew Algeo
Publisher |
Kenny Ryan
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
History
News & Politics
Presidency
USA
Categories Via RSS |
Government
History
Publication Date |
Dec 27, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:42:27

What was Grover Cleveland hiding in 1893? When the famously honest president was diagnosed with mouth cancer, he decided to keep it from the public at all costs - even if that meant hatching a hair-brained scheme to surgically remove the tumor on a yacht at sea.Join me as I talk with award-winning journalist and author Matthew Algeo, author of prose.com/book/9781569767078">All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy’s 1968 Tour of Appalachia; Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip; and prose.com/book/9781613744567">The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth, to discuss how far Cleveland was willing to go to take his secret to the grave.

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