The Madman in the White House : : Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson / / Patrick Weil.

The notorious psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, rediscovered nearly a century after it was written by Sigmund Freud and US diplomat William C. Bullitt, sheds new light on how the mental health of a controversial American president shaped world events.When the fate of millions rests on the decisions...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 The American Collapse of the Treaty of Versailles
  • 2 The Making of William C. Bullitt
  • 3 An American in Paris and Vienna
  • 4 Sigmund Freud, Coauthor
  • 5 The Failure of the First Atlantic Alliance
  • 6 Princeton Nightmares
  • 7 Neurosis on the World Stage
  • 8 Analyzing Wilson
  • 9 Signing On with FDR
  • 10 Ambassador Bullitt Goes to Moscow
  • 11 Diplomacy to the Rescue?
  • 12 After Munich
  • 13 A Phony War
  • 14 Liberating France, Confronting the “Red Amoeba”
  • 15 America’s Freelance Secretary of State
  • 16 The Wilson Book, at Last
  • 17 The Return of the Father
  • 18 The Secret
  • 19 Wilson in Retrospect
  • Conclusion: Personality in History
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index