First-Rate Madness Ghaemi S. Nassir
First-Rate Madness Ghaemi S. Nassir This "New York Times" bestseller is a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership. In "A First-Rate Madness",…
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First-Rate Madness Ghaemi S. Nassir
This "New York Times" bestseller is a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership. In "A First-Rate Madness", Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Programme at Tufts Medical Center, offers and sets forth a controversial, compelling thesis: the very qualities that mark those with mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times of crisis. Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others.
From the importance of Lincoln's "depressive realism" to the lacklustre leadership of exceedingly sane men as Neville Chamberlain, "A First-Rate Madness" overturns many of our most cherished perceptions about greatness and the mind.