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The Madman in the White House

Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson

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$35.00 • £30.95 • €31.95

ISBN 9780674291614

Publication Date: 05/16/2023

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400 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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  • 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

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