| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

The Hidden Campaign: FDR's Health and the 1944 Election. By Hugh E. Evans. (Armonk: Sharpe, 2002. xviii, 202 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7656-0855-3.)
This addition to the literature on Franklin D. Roosevelt is a worthy and well-written study by Hugh E. Evans, an eminently qualified and experienced physician. It focuses primarily upon Roosevelt's health during the last months of his life, and it provides a brief treatment of FDR's medical history and some general observations on the life expectancy of the twentieth-century president.	1
When Roosevelt assumed the presidency in 1933 he was in excellent health except for the partial paralysis resulting from the polio attack in 1921. The first known evidence of decline in Roosevelt's health was a very high blood pressure reading in 1937 and results of an "abnormal" EKG (electrocardiogram) in 1941. Thereafter until 1944 during the stressful days of World War II "the president's hypertension progressed without even minimal treatment as noted in available records" (pp. 37–38).	. . .

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