A First–Rate Madness Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness, 2024 Edition [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B0CF6WCGYP | 2024 | 9 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: S. Nassir Ghaemi
Narrator: Adam Barr
Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, offers a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership 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. From the importance of Lincoln's "depressive realism" to the lackluster leadership of exceedingly sane men as Neville Chamberlain, A First-Rate Madness overturns many of our most cherished perceptions about greatness and the mind.