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In Search of Nixon - A Psychohistorical Inquiry (Paperback)
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In Search of Nixon - A Psychohistorical Inquiry (Paperback)
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Who was the real Richard Nixon and why did he behave the way he
did? In this innovative work, a distinguished historian, trained in
psychoanalysis, unravels the riddle of Nixon's singularly opaque
political personality. Neither a political biography, nor a
clinical psychoanalysis, at the time of its initial publication, In
Search of Nixon launched a new genre of scholarship; the
"psycho-historical inquiry." Mazlish offers insight into the subtle
interplay between Nixon the man and Nixon the public figure. Why,
for example, did Nixon have such personal difficulties in making
decisions? Knowing how the young Nixon learned to cope with the
problems of his childhood, what can we infer about his
unpredictable decisions on Communist China, inflation, and the
Supreme Court? Bruce Mazlish applies psychoanalysis to history in
order to understand Nixon's behaviour, decisions, and political
stance. He explains why Nixon characteristically projected personal
crises onto the political arena-as, for example, in the famous
Checkers speech, or in the Haynsworth-Carswell affair. And he
examines why, conversely, political questions such as pacifism,
abortion, and subversion had such a peculiarly personal meaning for
him.
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