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Power Beyond Reason: The Mental Collapse of Lyndon Johnson Hardcover – September 1, 2002

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What happened when the most powerful nation in the world gave its highest office to a man who came to believe that God was selecting his bombing targets. This examination of Lyndon Johnson, a paranoid manic-depressive, answers that question. Using virtually everything ever written about the president, this book examines what drove him throughout his life and especially during the Vietnam War. Did his bipolar disorder shape his personality? Evidence demonstrates his manic-depression dictated much of his Vietnam policy. This is the type of serious book Lyle Stuart has been associated with throughout his career of publishing best-selling books. It is a highly controversial look at the mental breakdown of President Johnson and is sure to get attention. Publication is planned around election time to get most exposure at a time when we examine our leaders with closer scrutiny. With shocking revelations, this book expands on the LBJ material that has been published.
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D. Jablow Hershman whose own experiences with depression led to the authorship of The Key to Genius: Manic Depression and the Creative Life that shows how manic depression played a significant role in the lives and work of many geniuses. This was followed by Brotherhood of Tyrants, which examines the politics and case histories of Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. While researching this book she gathered enough material to prove that manic depression had a profound effect on Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ UNKNO; First Edition (September 1, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1569802432
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1569802434
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.56 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches
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Customers find the book interesting and well-written. It provides historical details about Lyndon Johnson that open their eyes to his power, insensitivity, and ego. They describe it as an enjoyable read that is easy to understand.

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Jeff Marzano
5.0 out of 5 stars Describes Johnson As Mentally Ill
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2015
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This book contains a lot of historical details about Lyndon Johnson going back to his college days and even before, his political career, his presidency, and beyond.

The main premise of the book is Johnson suffered from a mental disorder called manic depression. Another name for this mental condition is bipolar disorder because the individual exhibits wild mood swings between the two emotional poles of manic exuberance and debilitating depression. These powerful emotions cause various effects on human behavior and can even cause physical effects and health problems.

Like the emotions themselves the effects on the individual can also be extreme. Johnson was a man of extremes according to the book. Extreme smoking. Extreme drinking, Extreme womanizing. But also extreme working. Johnson was a driven, ambitious workaholic.

Along with the extreme mood swings and behavior comes delusions which the individual has about themselves. Johnson was an egomaniac. They may also have a martyr and persecution complex where they feel they are surrounded by enemies who want to destroy them.

I think everyone exhibits some of these personality traits from time to time. I guess it's a question of degrees between people and some people cross the line into what psychiatrists view as mental illness.

Another point of the book is the inherent dangers of a powerful individual like an American president suffering from bipolar disorder or any mental illness. There may be a tendency to conceal their condition from the public and perhaps a reluctance to allow a president to seek professional help from a psychiatrist.

But in the case of Lyndon Johnson I'm not convinced that everything he did was a result of bipolar disorder. I'm a believer in the JFK assassination conspiracy and I believe Johnson was part of this conspiracy. The belief with the conspiracy crowd is Lyndon Johnson had two choices. Bobby Kennedy had become aware of Johnson's involvement with many murders that happened during his political career. Those bodies were starting to surface and Bobby could smell the blood in the water. Lyndon's choices were to be friendly with the assassination and the Vietnam War or go to prison for a very long time.

Lyndon Johnson was indicted posthumously for his involvement in many murder conspiracies including the murder of USDA investigator Henry Marshall. Not that a grand jury indictment is like a conviction in court but to me for a grand jury to take this step indicates that there was a lot of evidence pointing to Lyndon Johnson as a corrupt and vicious killer.

Saying that Lyndon Johnson had foreknowledge of the JFK assassination and that he participated in the assassination and ensuing massive cover up changes everything about what Lyndon's true motivations were for Vietnam and many other things.

Roger Stone and Phil Nelson have books out about Johnson's involvement in the JFK assassination.

Fletcher Prouty's two books, especially his 'JFK', paint a very dismal picture of the true causes for the so called Vietnam War and what exactly was going on within the United States government when JFK was killed.
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Jeff Bailey
4.0 out of 5 stars LBJ - why didn't you take your meds today?
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2024
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Very convincing bio of LBJ that he was besotten with bipolar disorder most of his life and the entire tenure as President.
Digress from the author's assertion that the Vietnam War wouldn't had manifested if Lyndon Johnson didn't have above mental illness. Vietnam was a Black Hole that would had sucked in anybody who occupied the Oval Office even if he was the optimum of mental health. After failing to dislodge Castro from Cuba, no President would had wanted to be painted with - " Who lost South Vietnam??
But concur with author that without his mania, Johnson would had never been Senate Majority Leader nor elected to the Senate, hence, never President.
LBJ was a horrible human being without bipolar disorder, but he wouldn't had been all that bad, and not as successful politically.
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Sharon
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2013
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A book that you will not be able to put down. It just opens your eyes to the power,insensitivity,and ego of this man. The hatred for the Kennedy's and of course their hatred for him provokes many thoughts about both Kennedy assignations. Johnson interests were for Johnson and his legacy only ,not for the good of the country.His main goal was to be remembered by history as a greater president then Lincoln. FDR or Kennedy. He Great Society plan did create many government programs ,but behind it was the intention to pass FDR's New Deal . Viet Nan was a disgrace to his presidency and our nation. I remember those horrible days and nights and thought that we were fighting for freedom, not for the ego of this president. I put him below Andrew Johnson as the worst we ever elected thus far.His treatment of employees,family,women and secret service , are both upsetting and deplorable.The book tells how close we really were to the end of the line.
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David Myers
5.0 out of 5 stars Finger on the Button
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2012
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A psychiatric analysis of LBJ's history (family and personal) of chronic severe Bi-Polar Affective Disorder (Manic - Depressive Disorder). I've worked as a mental health worker in the field of mental health for twenty-two years (fifteen of them in an emergency psychiatric assessment unit). I was quite familiar with LBJ's horrendous history of corruption, paranoia, and murder thanks to well documented books like: "The Texas Connection" by Craig I. Zirbel (pub 1991); "Blood, Money, & Power - How LBJ Killed JFK" by noted LBJ authority and LBJ personal attorney, Barr McClellan (pub 2003); and "LBJ - The Mastermind of JFK's Assassination" by Phillip F.Nelson (pub 2010), but "Power Beyond Reason: The Mental Collapse of Lyndon Johnson by D. Jablow Hershman (pub 2002), put it all together for me very thoroughly.
It gives first hand accounts of LBJ's outrageous treatment of his contemporaries, his, employees, his wife, his "friends" and his co-conspirators. It traces his various periods of depression, mania, irritability, paranoia, delusions of grandeur and omnipotence, and his massive unrelenting ego and reveals the real world implications and results of his mental illness, including the profound impact on the ill-fated Viet Nam war under his rule. Frankly, we were lucky we got through his presidential years without his causing World War III. This book does not deal with his involvement in the assassination of JFK or the subsequent cover-up but does deal with his paranoid fear and hatred of both Kennedy brothers. This book does not deal either with LBJ's confessions to his psychiatrist and the payoff of that same professional to keep him from revealing LBJ's main sources of guilt for ten years after LBJ's death, which was covered in great detail in both "Blood, Money, and Power" and "LBJ - the Mastermind of the JFK Assassination".
For me, it completed the picture I already had of LBJ by relating everything that happened to his on-going severe untreated psychiatric disorder. LBJ was an extremely evil man, who was driven by his manic/depressive disorder all through his life. This book connects the dots and fills in the gaps as to his myriad motivations. It gave me a much clearer image of his involvement from late 1963 - 1968 in the everyday time-line of the Viet Nam war, including the disillusionment of most of his top aides who nearly all came to oppose the continuation of the disastrous Viet Nam War. LBJ quite naturally, due to his horrendous ego and his psychiatric condition, came to believe that all of his former aides were being controlled by Communists and were traitors - typical paranoid delusional behavior. LBJ wanted to be remembered as one of the US' "greatest presidents". Instead, he succeeded in making himself the worst US president ever!
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