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The Hidden Illnesses That Shaped FDR's Life and Changed the Course of History Conventional wisdom has it that after Franklin Delano Roosevelt overcame a bout of polio at age 39, he remained in robust health until dying of a stroke in 1945 at age 63. The reality: cover-ups by his innermost circle of confidantes, family members, and physicians concealed serious medical problems that not only endangered FDR's life, but threatened the fate of the free world. Drawing on extensive research, including FBI memoranda, first-hand reports, a diary kept by his closest companion, and even an admission by Eleanor Roosevelt herself, FDR Unmasked reveals: The multitude of maladies FDR battled at virtually every stage of his career, including epilepsy, severe cardiovascular disease, and incurable cancers His friendship with the physician who helped hide Woodrow Wilson's disabling stroke for the last 18 months of his presidency His close, highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, who provided his yacht for secret medical treatments, including one near-fatal episode in 1934 How a weakened FDR failed to challenge Stalin's demands at Yalta The unknown archive of a cancer surgeon who treated FDR as early as 1930 - a relationship FDR's son later concealed

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"""With relentless sleuthing and great empathy, Steven Lomazow has rewritten the life story of a great American to set the record straight. Lomazow's startling discoveries demand that we rethink FDR's career and character ...an epic achievement in truth-telling."" *-Michael Dolan. Editor, **American History Magazine* ""What does it say about generations of biographers who have not been able to pierce the medical coverup that Dr. Lomazow documents in irrefutable particulars?"" *-Carl Rollyson, Professor of Journalism at Baruch College, The City University of New York, and author of more than 14 biographies* ""A major contribution to world history and the history of medicine."" *-Robert J. Ruben, Professor Emeritus, Albert Einstein College of Medicine* ""An extensively researched and pursausive medical biography."" *-Kirkus Reviews*"

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Steven Lomazow, M.D., is a board-certified neurologist in practice for 43 years. His first FDR biography, FDR's Deadly Secret, written with journalist Eric Fettmann, was published in 2010 by Public Affairs. Dr. Lomazow served as a trustee of the FDR Library and Museum at Hyde Park, New York, and has written numerous scholarly articles about FDR's health for peer-reviewed medical journals, including ""The Epilepsy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt"" in Neurology. He is also a reviewer for the Journal of Medical Biography, past president of the Medical History Society of New Jersey, and the current president of the Neurological Association of New Jersey.

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