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Shame and Humiliation : Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (408 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773565906
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shame and HumiliationLOC classification:
  • DS558 .S737 1996
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Shame, Humiliation, Loss of Self-Esteem, and Aggression -- 2 Lyndon Johnson: The Humiliated Narcissist -- 3 Johnson and Vietnam -- 4 Richard Nixon: The Angry Narcissist -- 5 Nixon and Cambodia -- 6 Dwight Eisenhower: The Healthy Narcissist -- 7 Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Blema Steinberg adopts a psychoanalytical approach in her examination of the decision making of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Dwight Eisenhower during the Vietnam War. She argues that personality traits, such as narcissism, influenced critical decisions they made about U.S. intervention in Vietnam.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Shame, Humiliation, Loss of Self-Esteem, and Aggression -- 2 Lyndon Johnson: The Humiliated Narcissist -- 3 Johnson and Vietnam -- 4 Richard Nixon: The Angry Narcissist -- 5 Nixon and Cambodia -- 6 Dwight Eisenhower: The Healthy Narcissist -- 7 Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Blema Steinberg adopts a psychoanalytical approach in her examination of the decision making of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Dwight Eisenhower during the Vietnam War. She argues that personality traits, such as narcissism, influenced critical decisions they made about U.S. intervention in Vietnam.

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