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Examines the impact of medical and psychological illness onforeign policy decision making. Illness provides specific,predictable, and recognizable shifts in attention, timeperspective, cognitive capacity, judgment, and emotion, whichsystematically affect impaired leaders. In particular, this bookdiscusses the ways in which processes related to aging, physicaland psychological illness, and addiction influence decision making.This book provides detailed analysis of four cases among theAmerican presidency. Woodrow Wilson's October 1919 stroke affectedhis behavior during the Senate fight over ratifying the League ofNations. Franklin Roosevelt's severe coronary disease influencedhis decisions concerning the conduct of war in the Pacific from1943–1945 in particular. John Kennedy's illnesses and treatmentsaltered his behavior at the 1961 Vienna conference with SovietPremier Khrushchev. And Nixon's psychological impairments biasedhis decisions regarding the covert bombing of Cambodia in1969–1970.

First published in 2004, Congress, Progressive Reform and theNew American State uses a series of case-studies of reformlegislation in Congress during the early twentieth century toexplore the nature of progressivism and the processes of politicalchange which resulted in the establishment of the modern Americanstate. Among the topics covered are railroad regulation, laborrelations, social policy of the District of Columbia, Republicaninsurgency, and the nature of Democratic progressivism. This workwill be of interest to students of twentieth-century politicalhistory, the history of Congress, and the origins of the modernAmerican state.