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Jacobson, Zachary Jonathan, 1980- author.
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Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 -- Psychology.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
International relations -- Decision making -- Psychological aspects.
Psychohistory.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
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On Nixon's madness : an emotional history / Zachary Jonathan Jacobson.
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Jacobson, Zachary Jonathan, 1980- author.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.
Subjects
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 -- Psychology.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
International relations -- Decision making -- Psychological aspects.
Psychohistory.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
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9781421445533 (hardcover) :
1421445530 (hardcover)
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x, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
The acting life of Richard Nixon -- The sentimental life of Richard Nixon -- The working life of Richard Nixon -- Madness in the act : the first campaign -- Madness in the mind : rage and conspiracism in the presidency -- Madness in play : the "madman theory" in foreign policy -- Madness controlled : to China and the "indefinite shore".
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"Beginning with Nixon's Red-baiting performances as a congressman on the House Un-American Activities Committee, Jacobson details Nixon's repeated reinventions, which were always, but not only, in service to his political goals. Nixon, he argues, must be understood as a person caught between forces of temper and control, protean in a way that makes his whole legacy difficult to assess"--Provided by publisher.
"Was Richard Nixon actually a madman, or did he just play one? When Richard Nixon battled for the presidency in 1968, he did so with the knowledge that, should he win, he would face the looming question of how to extract the United States from its disastrous war in Vietnam. It was on a beach that summer that Nixon disclosed to his chief aide, H. R. Haldeman, one of his most notorious, risky gambits: the madman theory. In On Nixon's Madness, Zachary Jonathan Jacobson examines the enigmatic president through this theory of Nixon's own invention. With strategic force and nuclear bluffing, Nixon attempted to coerce his foreign adversaries through sheer unpredictability. As his national security advisor Henry Kissinger noted, Nixon's strategy resembled a poker game in which he "push[ed] so many chips into the pot" that the United States' foes would think the president had gone "crazy." From Vietnam, Pakistan, and India to the greater Middle East, Nixon applied this madman theory. Foreign relations were not a steady march toward peaceful coexistence but rather an ongoing test of mettle. Nixon saw the Cold War as he saw his life, as a series of ordeals that demanded great risk and grand gestures. For decades, journalists, critics, and scholars have searched for the real Nixon behind these acts. Was he a Red-baiter, a worldly statesman, a war criminal or, in the end, a punchline? Jacobson combines biography and intellectual and cultural history to understand the emotional life of Richard Nixon, exploring how the former president struggled between great effusions of feeling and great inhibition, how he winced at the notion of his reputation for rage, and how he used that ill repute to his advantage"--Provided by publisher.
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