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By Jerrold M. Post and Robert S. Robins. 243 pp. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1993. $25. ISBN 0-300-05683-4.

The relation between political leaders' states of health and the institutions of state that they govern are necessarily complex. The authors of this book describe these relations as though a leader, whether a monarch or a democratically elected president, presides over a group of courtiers and possesses all the instruments of a palace. The description is not inappropriate. Staffs of latter-day presidents and prime ministers behave in many ways as did courtiers of old. The political surroundings of democratic leaders retain much of the coloring of intrigue and the rewards usually associated with older regimes.

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