A Conspiracy of Silence: Impact on History: The Health and Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry S. Goldsmith, MD
iUniverse (2007)
ISBN 9780595399420
Reviewed by Danelle Drake for Reader Views (11/08)

 

Like a great who-dun-it, you will become engrossed in “A Conspiracy of Silence.”  Thanks to the diligence of Harry S. Goldsmith, MD, we find out how the health of President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a great impact on the United States of America.  Dr. Goldsmith made it his quest to uncover the truth and spent many, many years digging through files, asking questions, and researching the past.

Did those in the inner-circle, including the President, have the information that in 1944 FDR was a dying man?  How did this knowledge benefit those lobbying for the nomination of Harry S. Truman for the vice presidency?  While reading this exceptional investigation, I became engrossed in the past.  Although I was not born until many years later, I reveled in becoming familiar with Roosevelt.  He was a President who was greatly loved by the American people.

I am normally not a very political person, but given our current situation in America, I feel that the last paragraph in the closing chapter speaks to the entire American population:  “This story began in 1963 after my hearing Dr. Pack lecture on “The Impact of Illness on World History.”  The journey of discovery regarding Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s health revealed how great an impact an American president’s medical condition can have on the well-being of the country and the world, and how powerful politicians can step into a void created by an ailing world leader in order to chart their own favorable political goals.  Since history has a way of repeating itself, it is important that we remember these concerns.”

With that thought in mind, “A Conspiracy of Silence: Impact on History: The Health and Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt” is a book that really hits home to all Americans.  Each and every one of us should thank Harry S. Goldsmith, MD, for dedicating years of his life researching to make us all aware of the impact our decisions make on the future.

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