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Nixon vs. Nixon; An Emotional Tragedy.
Psychoanalytic substantiation of the argument that Nixon willed his own downfall.
268 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1977
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October 4, 2017
No politician has inspired more psychobiographies than Richard Nixon, whose strange personality and dramatic downfall certainly invite speculation into his mental makeup. This, though, is exactly kind of crude, faux-Freudian garbage that gives that subgenre a bad name. Everything in Nixon's life, career and personality is reduced to his sex drives: his striving for success due to his affection for his mother; his affection towards his dead brothers somehow indicative of incestuous attraction towards them; his tale of hearing the Whittier train a phallic hallucination; his paranoia and emotional constipation the result of not masturbating enough as a child. This is practically a caricature of psychoanalysis, offering more insight into its overbearing author than its subject. Compared to this book, Fawn Brodie's wilder speculations in Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character seem like the rock of truth.
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