Vessels of RageAculeus Press Based on over 20 years' prodigious research, Graham takes the reader on a compelling tour of human history & links alcohol addiction with the destructive behavior of a range of public figures, including tyrants, murderers, politicians & writers. Drawing on the case of famous characters such as Alexander the Great, Joseph Stalin, Joe McCarthy & Ernest Hemingway, this book presents a convincing assessment of how this disorder can adversely affect the behavior of powerful individuals with devastating consequences. |
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| 3 | |
Abusers and Accusers | 15 |
The Invisible Disease | 31 |
The Traitors Disease | 42 |
Power Symptoms | 57 |
Other Symptoms | 73 |
Alcoholism Writes | 82 |
Alcoholism Kills | 104 |
Murderous Sons | 136 |
Alcoholism Reigns | 147 |
Joseph Stalin Supreme Alcoholic | 169 |
Selected Bilbiography | 204 |
| 217 | |
Permissions and Acknowledgments | 232 |
Druge izdaje - Prikaži vse
Vessels of Rage, Engines of Power: The Secret History of Alcoholism James Graham Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1994 |
Pogosti izrazi in povedi
abuse According active alcoholics addiction Adolf Hitler Al-Anon alco alcoholic ego alcoholic's Alcoholics Anonymous alcoholism causes Alexander Alois Alois Hitler American Andrew Johnson Army arrested attack Becker Beethoven behavior bender biographers booze Bundy Chapter committed Company convinced crimes death Dederich destructive died disease drank drinker drunk drunken egomania Emphasis added Eugene O'Neill execution false accusations famous father Fitzgerald friends Gacy heavy drinking Hellman Hemingway Henry holics Huey Long Iacocca innocent Ivan Joe McCarthy Joseph Stalin Khrushchev Kilgallen killed Kim Philby Late-stage alcoholics Lewis Lillian Hellman lived McCarthy Medvedev Moscow mother murder never night nonalcoholics O'Neill once percent Philby power symptoms President Press psychiatrist rage reason recovered alcoholic reported Richard Speck Scott Fitzgerald secret Senator serial killer sign of alcoholism Sinclair Lewis Soviet Union Story suicide Svetlana Synanon told traitors Vasily victims wife woman York young Ziporyn
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 4 - A definite morbid process having a characteristic train of symptoms; it may affect the whole body or any of its parts, and its etiology, pathology, and prognosis may be known or unknown.