Word: addisonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have it, that an infection stemming from it almost killed him after his spinal operation in 1954. Nichols bases his conclusion on an article he came across in the November 1955 Archives of Surgery, in which J.F.K.'s surgeon, Dr. James A. Nicholas, describes his preparations for an "Addisonian crisis" in an unnamed 37-year-old man who underwent spinal surgery at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery on Oct. 21, 1954-the same day and the same hospital where 37-year-old John Kennedy underwent the same operation...
...final volume of Irving Brant's massive biography begins as Madison is leading the U.S. into the War of 1812. In the five previous volumes, Brant argued energetically and effectively that Madison was the forgotten Founding Father, a man dehumanized by historians because of his "intellectual powers, his Addisonian style of political writing and his concentration on public affairs." As proof that he had a more human side, Brant even dug up some mildly salacious poems that Madison had written at Princeton. In his present volume, Brant claims that Madison was also a strong President-and trips over...
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