December 2009
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Did Cancer Kill FDR?
In 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt died suddenly of a massive brain hemorrhage, just months after beginning his fourth term in office. FDR’s doctor, Howard G. Bruenn M.D., likened the fatal attack to a “bolt of lightening.”
This account of the demise of America’s 32nd president has been accepted by the vast majority of historians and the public for more than 60 years....
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The history of the Cold War, from the developing animosity between the U.S. and...
– School Library Journal (December 2009)