In Sickness and in Power: Illnesses in Heads of Government During the Last 100 YearsBloomsbury Academic, 30 may 2008 - 420 páginas The course of modern world history has been critically shaped by the physical and mental illnesses of heads of state, sometimes in the public eye but usually in secrecy. Democratic politicians as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Pompidou, Mitterrand, Blair, George W. Bush, Chirac, and Sharon all lied about their health. Between 1906 and 2008 seven Presidents are judged to have been mentally ill while in office: Theodore Roosevelt (bipolar disorder), Taft (breathing-related sleep disorder), Wilson (major depressive disorder), Coolidge (major depressive disorder), Hoover (major depressive disorder), Johnson (bipolar disorder), and Nixon (alcohol abuse). Many despots-such as Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Robert Mugabe-have been branded by the press and public opinion as suffering mental illnesses. Lord Owen argues neither Hitler nor Stalin were mad in any sense the medical profession recognizes (whereas Mussolini and Mao had depression, possibly bipolar disorder). |
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... hubris is defined : ' But when desire irrationally drags us toward pleasures and rules within us , its rule is called excess [ hubris ] . ' 13 Plato saw this ' rule of desire ' as something irrational that drags men into doing the wrong ...
... hubris started to develop in 1999 during the Kosovo crisis and built up over Sierra Leone and through the general election in 2001 until 9/11 . With George W. Bush there is a prima facie case that his hubris syndrome developed quickly ...
... hubris that the classical world considered the worst of human errors . In this way character acts as a guiding force . " 4 We need more clues , or alerting information , as to why some leaders may develop hubris when in office . The ...
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