Along with a solid reconstruction of these events, Algeo paints a colorful portrait of political intrigue and journalism during the Gilded Age. His previous book, Harry Trumans Excellent Adventure, was named one of the best books of 2009 by the Washington Post.
His latest book is The President Is a Sick Man (Chicago Review Press, 2011).
Maligned by rival newspapers, Edwards was branded as "a disgrace to journalism," his career "seemingly tainted forever by allegations that he had faked the story." But he was vindicated in 1917 when the facts were finally revealed in a Saturday Evening Post article. When hes not writing his own biography in the third person, Matthew Algeo writes about unusual and interesting events in American history. American journalism," but the public accepted the official denials. Edwards revealed the truth in "one of the greatest scoops in. Within weeks, Philadelphia Press reporter E.J. Reporters at the Cleveland's Cape Cod summer home became curious when the Oneida failed to arrive. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friends yacht and was not heard from for five.
In June 1893, having told the New York Times he was going away for a rest, Cleveland secretly boarded a friend's yacht and disappeared for five days as surgeons onboard removed a cancerous tumor from his mouth and much of his upper jaw. Despite a reputation for honesty, says Algeo (Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure), "President Grover Cleveland, like FDR and JFK, went to great lengths to hide an illness from the public. Buy The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies.
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