Hershman,D.J. Power Beyond Reason. 2002
Hershman, D. Jablow, with a preface by Gerald Tolchin, Ph.D. Power Beyond
Reason: The Mental Collapse of Lyndon Johnson. Fort Lee NJ: Barricade Books,
2002. 358 pages.
D. Jablow Hershman's first book examined the role of manic depression
in the lives of geniuses, the second looked at the politics and case
histories of Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin, and this one is based on her
research from 86 books, which is almost everything written about Lyndon
Johnson. Her point is that Johnson suffered from bipolar disorder throughout
his life, and that this is the way to make sense out his policies and
behavior. As Professor Gerald Tolchin writes in the preface: "A manic can
act impulsively and precipitously with little regard for consequences."
Hershman's research makes a strong case. She extracts anecdotes,
conversations, and examples from LBJ's recorded behavior, starting with
childhood, and stitches it into an enlightening narrative. The result is a
biography of a president unlike any other. It explains why LBJ waged war
in Vietnam as soon as JFK, who planned to pull out, was assassinated. It's
scary, because today George W. Bush, fortified by religious zeal, is going
crazy in Iraq. But Bush clearly wants the oil that America needs to keep
its SUVs running, which at least offers hope that Bush, unlike LBJ, may
not be clinically unbalanced. Vietnam, by contrast, had nothing the U.S. or
LBJ wanted -- it was mainly a matter of Lyndon Johnson's manic depression.
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