Kaiser and Fuhrer: A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics.(Review) (book review)

Historian, The, March, 2000 by Lemmons, Russel

Kaiser and Fuhrer: A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics. By Robert G. L. Waite. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 511. $50.00.)

In 1977, Robert G. L. Waite published his controversial psychobiography of Adolf Hitler, The Psychopathic God. The book received almost universally bad reviews from scholars, not only because its author attempted to psychoanalyze the German leader without the benefit of "getting him on the couch," but also because of the work's circular logic, as well as Waite's reliance upon extremely dubious sources, especially regarding the Fuhrer's sex life. Waite's latest work, Kaiser and Fuhrer, covers much of the same territory, but does, on occasion, offer some interesting insights.

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