A First-Rate Madness

The New York Times  bestseller “A glistening psychological history, faceted largely by the biographies of eight famous leaders . . .” — The Boston Globe “A provocative thesis . . . Ghaemi’s book deserves high marks for original thinking.”  —The Washington Post “Provocative, fascinating.” —Salon.com 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 Ghae