A First-Rate Madness, (Paperback)

from Damiella

I found this a really interesting book to read post-Christmas (get the grey cells working while not overloading them). I wasn't familiar with some of the featured historic personages but even so I was able to follow the arguments. In a way that says it all.

from phlll

Disclaimer: I won this book. I'm reviewing it, even though I didn't pay for it. Beyond the nice people at Penguin Publishing mailing the book to my house in a white, padded envelope (sadly *not* reusable) there was nothing else implied by me or the publisher in my reading it. No promise of any mo...

from ChewDigest

A few things stopped me from giving this 5 stars. *What is Ted Turner doing being compared to FDR, Sherman, Kennedy, Ghandi, etc.?*The repetition of phrases. Some were helpful, like restating what a particular term meant. Others got old, as in "As we will soon see...."*There was an obvious prejud...

from AbraLodge

I want to read this book again - with a highlighter, and I never write in books - and then discuss parts with my husband, a history professor. I love history and I found this compelling, even though the psychological vocabulary can be heavy and the text redundant at times. It is also hard not to ...

from jspringbrinkley

A whole different perspective, avoids demonizing or putting the subject on a pedestal. I think as a whole people think of mental abnormalities as something detrimental or 'bad', and being mentally 'normal' (a 'homoclite' as it is put) is viewed as being completely positive or 'good'. This book po...