Fathers and Children: How Famous Leaders Were Influenced By Their Fathers - Hardcover

Sulzberger, C. L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877959250 ISBN 13: 9780877959250

Publisher: Arbor House Publishing, 1987

Synopsis

Physical description; v, 246 p. ; 18 cm. Contents; Jitta's atonement, by Siegfried Trebitsch.--Trifles and tomfooleries: The admirable Bashville; or, Constancy unrewarded. Press cuttings. The glimpse of reality. Passion, poison, and petrifaction; or, The fatal gazogene. The fascinating foundling. The music-cure. Subjects; Trebitsch, Siegfried (1869-1956). - Frau Gitta's suhne. Trebitsch, Siegfried 1868-. - Frau Gitta's sühne. English drama - Irish authors - 20th century.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times columnist and author of some 20 books, Sulzberger here presents 14 father-child portraits, seeking to recount the relationship of each father and his offspring, their principal achievements and how well or how badly the various children followed in parental footsteps. In essays that are frequently repetitious, disorganized and tedious, Sulzberger speculates that Alexander the Great, Douglas MacArthur, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin may have been influenced by an Oedipus complex; the "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I, may have inherited syphilis as well as the crown from her father, Henry VIII; and "the fact that Stalin's father beat him constantly and cruelly when he was a little boy certainly had a profound effect on the youngster's subsequent life and, therefore, upon the history of Russia and the world." Also included are the Adamses, the only father-and-son American presidents, the artistic Bellinis and the evil Borgias. The essay on the Kennedys questions the merit of John's Pulitzer Prize-winning but "substantially ghost-written" Profiles in Courage as it tries to debunk the "Camelot" myth.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Retired New York Times columnist Sulzberger has written an uneven series of essays about famous fathers and children (two daughters, Elizabeth I and Indira Gandhi, are included). Loosely grouped around the themes of war heroes, political and artistic leaders of the Renaissance, ideologues, and mythmakers, his 14 family subjects range from ancient Greece (Philip and Alexander) to contemporary times (the Kennedys and MacArthurs). His approach varies from objectivity to weak psychological hypotheses and unproductive personal asides. This crash course in cultural history is unlikely to appeal to many readers. Jeanne Gelinas, Hennepin Cty. Lib., Mound, Minn.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arbor House Publishing
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0877959250
• ISBN 13: 9780877959250
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 307