Richard Nixon: A PsychobiographyColumbia University Press, 2007 M01 22 - 160 pages 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? |
Contents
Why a Psychoanalytic Biography? | 1 |
The Life of Richard Nixon | 21 |
Nixons Parents | 23 |
Childhood and Adolescence | 32 |
Adulthood | 40 |
Nixon as a National Figure | 53 |
The Mind and Personality of Richard Nixon | 67 |
A Birds Eye View | 69 |
Reflections of Grandiosity | 109 |
Reflections of the Peacemaker | 118 |
The Final Face Enemies Everywhere | 128 |
Afterword | 141 |
The Real Richard Nixon and the Resurrection of His Reputation | 143 |
Notes | 151 |
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Nixons Personality Exaggerated SelfLove and Dependency | 89 |
Three Faces of Nixons Personality in Policymaking and in Defeat | 107 |
Other editions - View all
Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography Vamik D. Volkan,Norman Itzkowitz,Andrew W. Dod No preview available - 1997 |
Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography Vamik D. Volkan,Vamik Volkan, M D,Norman Itzkowitz,Andrew W. Dod No preview available - 1997 |