In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography
A Psychology, Biography, Presidents book. In fact, Clinton feels others pain to the point that he not infrequently...
What makes Bill Clinton tick?William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States is undoubtedly the greatest American enigma of our age -- a dark horse that captured the White House, fell from grace and was resurrected as an elder statesman whose popularity rises and falls based on the day’s sound bytes. John Gartner's In Search of Bill Clinton unravels the mystery at the heart of Clinton’s complex nature and why so many people fall under his spell. He tells the story we all thought we knew, from the fresh viewpoint of a psychologist,...
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There is also some value to inspiring a certain amount of fear in the people who work for you. When Clinton began as president, one White House veteran gave him a sage piece of advice: Your own staff wont take you seriously until you fire someone. Clinton demurred, Im not very good at that. He wasnt, and it hurt him. His administration was plagued by leaks to the press. Had he made an example of even one staffer, they might have stopped, or at least slowed. In a fit of rage Clinton sometimes demanded that someone be fired. Because he didnt have the heart... Machiavelli once said that if a prince had to choose between being loved and feared, he is better off being feared. Or as Lyndon Johnson put it more crudely, If you have their balls in your pocket, their hearts and minds will follow. Scratch away the thin veneer of civilization and the psychology of human leadership is not that different from that of our closest cousins, the chimpanzees. The alpha male rules because the other males fear he will physically hurt them if they challenge him. But John Gartner, In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography... In fact, Clinton feels others pain to the point that he not infrequently openly weeps for them, and his teary response is so infectious that it can trigger tears in others. This creates the opportunity for powerful political theater, all the more powerful because it is genuinely felt. Leopoulos was with Clinton in New Hampshire, and recalled how Clintons empathy routinely triggered an epidemic of tears. He had to hear everyones story. Some of the people were crying, and had terribly sad stories. Clinton started crying, too, and then we were all crying....
Very interesting book. Might be a look inside Clintons head. This book was very interesting, but could probably be cut in half. There was a lot of psych and science lingo with Bill's past in and of itself. It was interesting to learn of where Bill came from and why he may have acted the way he did. Hearing everyone's accounts of Bill's demeanor was also interesting.. I would be interested in... The author, John Gartner, a psychologist from John Hopkins, delves into the psyche of Bill Clinton, all the way from his childhood to the present.Gartner describes Clinton's personality as having "hypomanic tendencies" while not being a hypomanic with bipolar disorder (contradiction?). "In Search of Bill Clinton" offers an interesting...
