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|  | A Brotherhood of Tyrants by D. Jablow Hershman, Julian Lieb
Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin were three tyrants, the effects of whose brutal regimes are still with us. Each attained absolute power, and misused it in a gargantuan fashion, leaving in his wake a trail of hatred, devastation, and death. This remarkable study, while it examines the private and public lives of these three megalomaniacal leaders, is neither history nor biography. Rather, it takes the reader into the terra incognita of relationships between the strange lives of Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin and the ferocious, bizarre political systems they established. In A Brotherhood of Tyrants, D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb uncover manic depression as a hidden cause of dictatorship, war, and mass killing. Comparing Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin, they describe a number of behavioral similarities supporting the contention that a specific psychiatric disorder - manic depression - can be one of the key factors in a political pathology such as tyranny. Combining familiar facts from history and psychiatry, Hershman and Lieb have created a new theory suggesting that power and madness are linked by a mental disorder so variable in its effects that it condemns some people to twilight existences in mental hospitals while it propels others to every imaginable success. Focusing on these three dictators of modern history, A Brotherhood of Tyrants argues that manic depression has always been, and continues to be, a critical factor in compelling some individuals to seek political power and to become tyrants. It powerfully demonstrates how this disorder is the source of many of the typical characteristics - including grandiosity and megalomania - of a tyrannical personality,and provides a manual for the identification of the psychotic tyrant. In an epilogue, Hershman and Lieb outline the clinical signs of manic depression as described in the classic studies of the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926). The authors apply these clinical signs and sym AUTHOR: D. Jablow Hershman, Julian Lieb
PUBLISHER: Prometheus Books, Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | The Perfect Storm by Richard M. Davidson, Sebastian Junger
Description not available.Presents a vivid account of a history-making storm that hit the New England coast in October 1991 and the lives it changed, weaving together the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and personal accounts AUTHOR: Richard M. Davidson, Sebastian Junger
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Rayburn by D. B. Hardeman, Donald C. Bacon
Description not available.Traces the life and career of Rayburn, congressman for forty-nine years, and Speaker of the House of Representatives for twenty-one, and assesses his impact on U.S. politics and history AUTHOR: D. B. Hardeman, Donald C. Bacon
PUBLISHER: Madison Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The/Three Roosevelts by James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn
Description not available.The first biography to combine the lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt furnishes a fascinating portrait of the controversial lives of three courageous American leaders who changed the course of twentieth-century history. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. AUTHOR: James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Search for Hitler by Barrett Whitener, Ronald Rosenbaum
Has Hitler escaped? Ron Rosenbaum spent ten years examining both Hitler and the historians, psychologists, philosophers, and theologians who struggled with the mysteries he inspired. Their battles over Hitler explanations can be bitter; Rosenbaum reveals what they tell us about the explainers, and what they tell us about ourselves, particularly about the way we explain--and explain away--evil. AUTHOR: Barrett Whitener, Ronald Rosenbaum
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Writing at the Kitchen Table by Artemis Cooper
This biography of Elizabeth David (1913-1992) seeks to illuminate a life that was essentially mysterious. David's privileged childhood, her experiences as an actress, the charges of spying in fascist Italy, and her sojourn in Egypt during World War II--all are covered here, along with her London cookware shop, her husbands and lovers, and her emergence as one of the major food writers of the 20th century. AUTHOR: Artemis Cooper
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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