his friend vincent astor's yacht in, 1934. life gastrointestinal bleeding in the months leading up to pearl harbor swamp fever, a disease he made up to human and deflect from another of his medical crises. attacks of excruciating abdominal pain, two incurable cancers, countless surgeries to camouflage lives and treat the pigmented lesion above his left eye and in his last years, severe cardio vascular disease and frequent epileptic seizures. just to mention a few new revelation. aids and fdr unmask and clues from the archive of a previously obscure cancer surgeon who befriended fdr and began treating him in 1930 while he was governor of. new york also discussed in detail the first time is the relationship between and his relative by marriage. vincent astor, the closest male friendship of life and most excitingly to me as a physician, a medical cover up that began two decades after fdr death that attempted to literally rewrite history. after reading the subtitle of this book, one might ponder how medical cover ups can last for