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Despite an abundance of literature on Richard Nixon, the man behind the most spectacular crash-and-burn career of modern political history has remained an enigma. What lay behind his obsessive hunger for power and control, his paranoid attacks against enemies real and perceived, his refusal to accept defeat? Why did a man who had achieved so much feel so unfulfilled even at the height of his power? And what drove the president responsible for such triumphs as the opening of relations with China to the depths of the most devastating political scandal in American history? Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography is the first thoroughgoing psychological portrait of the 37th president, drawing upon telling interviews with Nixon intimates, published and archived materials, while employing a rigorous psychoanalytic methodology. Tracing the development of Nixon's complex psyche, the authors provide new insight not only into his unconscious motivations but also into the way they influenced his political actions, whether shrewd or disastrous The authors explore Nixon's difficult upbringing―his mean-spirited, abusive father and often-absent mother; episodic physical trauma and mental deprivation; th

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Author

Vamık D. Volkan

Publisher

Perseus Books, LLC

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585383750

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Historical Fiction, History