Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- One: Introduction -- Illness and Rationality -- Theoretical Approaches to the Impact of Illness on Leadership -- Illness as an Adaptive, Domain-Specific, Content-Laden Program -- Political Ramifications -- Conclusions -- Two: Aging, Illness, and Addiction -- Self-Selection -- Aging -- Illness -- Physical Illness -- Psychological Illness -- Addiction -- Conclusions -- Three: The Exacerbation of Personality: Woodrow Wilson -- Wilson's Personal Background -- Debate -- Wilson's Health History -- Impact of Wilson's Health on the League of Nations -- Conclusions -- Four: Leading While Dying: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1943-1945 -- Health Conditions -- Polio -- Decisions -- Conclusions -- Five: Addicted to Power: John F. Kennedy -- Illness -- Vienna -- Conclusions -- Six: Bordering on Sanity: Richard Nixon -- Nixon's Family History -- Explanations for Nixon's Personality -- Psychiatric Diagnoses -- Cambodia and Vietnam -- Conclusions -- Seven: The Twenty-fifth Amendment -- Sections of the Amendment -- Foreign Rules of Succession -- Miller Commission -- TheWorking Group -- Subcommittee on Criteria for Disability and Impairment -- Defining and Determining Presidential Impairment -- Conclusions -- Eight: Presidential Care -- Institutional Presidential Health Care -- Physician Selection -- Proposed Modes of Selection -- Age Limits -- Political Ramifications and Implications -- Appendix: Foreign Leadership and Medical Intelligence: The Shah of Iran and the Carter Administration -- Medical Intelligence -- The Shah of Iran -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Aging, Illness, and Addiction -- Chapter 3. The Exacerbation of Personality: WoodrowWilson -- Chapter 4. LeadingWhile Dying: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1943-1945.

Chapter 5. Addicted to Power: John F. Kennedy -- Chapter 6. Bordering on Sanity: Richard Nixon -- Chapter 7. Twenty-fifth Amendment -- Chapter 8. Presidential Care -- Appendix. Foreign Leadership and Medical Intelligence: The Shah of Iran and the Carter Administration -- Bibliography -- Archival Documents -- Other Sources -- Index.