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05172aam a2200529 i 4500 001 958DAA5A851711EEB4A9908744ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231117010120 008 221125t20232023mdua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2022010129 020 $a 1421445530 020 $a 9781421445533 035 $a (OCoLC)1353605945 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d JHE $d YDX $d BDX $d TOH $d YDX $d CLE $d YUS $d IND $d VP@ $d EAU $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us 050 00 $a E856 $b .J33 2023 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20221206 084 $a POL010000 $a POL010000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Jacobson, Zachary Jonathan, $d 1980- $e author. $4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2022063038 245 10 $a On Nixon's madness : $b an emotional history / $c Zachary Jonathan Jacobson. 264 1 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2023. 300 $a x, 434 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 340 $p illustration $2 rdaill $0 http://rdaregistry.info/termList/IllusContent/1014 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-416) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Part I. On acting : 1. The acting life of Richard Nixon -- 2. The sentimental life of Richard Nixon -- Interlude one -- 3. The working life of Richard Nixon -- Part II. On madness : 4. Madness in the act: the first campaign -- Interlude two -- 5. Madness in the mind: rage and conspiracism in the presidency -- Interlude three -- 6. Madness in play: the "madman theory" in foreign policy -- 7. Madness controlled: to China and the "indefinite shore" -- Conclusion. 520 $a "Was Richard Nixon actually a madman, or did he just play one? When Richard Nixon battled for the presidency in 1968, he did so with the knowledge that, should he win, he would face the looming question of how to extract the United States from its disastrous war in Vietnam. It was on a beach that summer that Nixon disclosed to his chief aide, H. R. Haldeman, one of his most notorious, risky gambits: the madman theory. In On Nixon's Madness, Zachary Jonathan Jacobson examines the enigmatic president through this theory of Nixon's own invention. With strategic force and nuclear bluffing, Nixon attempted to coerce his foreign adversaries through sheer unpredictability. As his national security advisor Henry Kissinger noted, Nixon's strategy resembled a poker game in which he "push[ed] so many chips into the pot" that the United States' foes would think the president had gone "crazy." From Vietnam, Pakistan, and India to the greater Middle East, Nixon applied this madman theory. Foreign relations were not a steady march toward peaceful coexistence but rather an ongoing test of mettle. Nixon saw the Cold War as he saw his life, as a series of ordeals that demanded great risk and grand gestures. For decades, journalists, critics, and scholars have searched for the real Nixon behind these acts. Was he a Red-baiter, a worldly statesman, a war criminal or, in the end, a punchline? Jacobson combines biography and intellectual and cultural history to understand the emotional life of Richard Nixon, exploring how the former president struggled between great effusions of feeling and great inhibition, how he winced at the notion of his reputation for rage, and how he used that ill repute to his advantage"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Nixon, Richard M. $q (Richard Milhous), $d 1913-1994 $x Psychology. 600 17 $a Nixon, Richard M. $q (Richard Milhous), $d 1913-1994. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31384 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31384 650 0 $a Presidents $z United States $v Biography. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85106470 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1969-1974. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140471 650 0 $a International relations $x Psychological aspects. $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Psychohistory. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108430 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741 650 7 $a Presidents. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1075723 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1075723 650 7 $a Psychohistory. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1081321 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1081321 650 7 $a Psychology. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1081447 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1081447 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204155 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204155 648 7 $a 1969-1974 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919896 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781421445540 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023916.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=958DAA5A851711EEB4A9908744ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search