Robert E. Gilbert

Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

319 Meserve Hall
(617) 373-2799
(617) 373-5311 (fax)
r.gilbert@neu.edu

Areas of Study

American Politics, Presidency, Parties and Elections, Media and Politics

The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death and Clinical Depression, Westport, Ct.: Praeger Publications, 2003.
Managing Crisis: Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. New York: Fordham University Press, 2000
The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House, 2nd edition. New York: Fordham University Press, 1998
"The Dysfunctional Presidency of Calvin Coolidge," White House Studies, Fall, 2004
"Coping with Presidential Disability: The Proposal for a standing Medical Commission," Politics and The Life Sciences, March, 2003
"John F. Kennedy: Moral Leadership in Civil Rights." Presidential Studies Quarterly (Summer, 1982)
"The Physical and Psychological Ailments of Lyndon B. Johnson: The Years of Ascent." Presidential Studies Quarterly (Summer 1996)
"The Presidency Can be a Killer." The Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2000
"The Political Effects of Presidential Illness: The Case of Lyndon B. Johnson," Political Psychology (December, 1995)
"Moral Leadership in Civil Rights; An Evaluation of John F. Kennedy," Political Communication and Persuasion, Fall, 1989

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Spring 2006

Fall 2004

Spring 2005