Kaiser and Führer: A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics **SIGNED**

Waite, Robert

ISBN 10: 080204185X / ISBN 13: 9780802041852

Published by University of Toronto Press, Toronto Buffalo London, 1998

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511pp., xiii. NAP. Six pages of black and white photo-portraits; Eight "Addenda": "Scatology in German Life and Letters", "The Kriegsschuldfrage and Historical Evidence", "The Kaiser in Exile", "Historical Continuity versus Change", "Coprophilic Perversion?", "Hitler and Incest", "Dr. Bloch and the Genesis of Hitler's Anti-Semiticism", "Hitler and Psychiatrists", pp. 352-379; Notes, pp. 380-491; Index, pp. 493-511. Red cloth with black lettering on spine; black endpapers. Black dustrwrapper not price-clipped (no price), with front cover illustrations of Hitler, saluting, and Kaiser in military regalia. Inscribed by author to named individual and signed on title page. Books seems opened only for signing, UNREAD. Seller Inventory # 001634

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Title: Kaiser and Führer: A Comparative Study of ...

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto Buffalo London

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: Inscribed and Signed by Author

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

There are some remarkable parallels, and some equally interesting differences, between Adolf Hitler and Germany's earlier ruler, Kaiser Wilhelm II. The most obvious parallel is that both were cult figures who brought their country to ruin and the world to war, but when Robert G.L. Waite began to seriously compare the two men, the number of specific similarities was striking. Kaiser and F hrer is the first in-depth examination of the similarities and differences between these two twentieth-century political leaders. Waite uses a psychological approach to throw light on the personal lives and politics of Wilhelm II and Adolf Hitler. He compares their intellectual worlds, their wartime strategies, and their tortured childhoods. Both men, we discover, had dual personalities - they could be cruel and kind, cowardly and brave, grandiose and vulnerable. Both exhibited homosexual tendencies yet were strongly attractive to women. We see how the personal pathologies of these two men heavily influenced the public policies that resulted in catastrophe. Thoroughly documented and engagingly written this is a classic work of scholarship that will fascinate historians, psychologists, and general readers alike.

About the Author:

The late Robert G.L. Waite was Brown Professor of History Emeritus at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler.