{"product_id":"when-illness-strikes-the-leader-the-dilemma-of-the-captive-king","title":"When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe illness or disability of a world leader can change the course of history. When Lenin became too infirm to remove Stalin from a position of power  when the shah of Irans terminal cancer was kept secret from his fellow Iranians and his foreign supporters until Ayatollah Khomeinis Islamic revolution had succeeded  the political consequences were monumental. In this book  two experts in political psychology reveal how the infirmities of leaders have affected their own societies and the broader course of world events. Drawing on a wide range of examples  including Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria  Woodrow Wilson  Adolf Hitler  Idi Amin  Deng Xiao-peng  Ferdinand Marcos  Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Menachem Begin  Dr. Jerrold M. Post and Robert S. Robins explore the impact of physical and mental illness on political leadership. Post and Robins investigate the effects of illness on the leader  his inner circle  his followers  and the political system itself. They discuss such topics as: how the nature of the illness affects decision-making; how mortal illness can make a leader more determined to make his mark on history; how a leaders disability can be hidden from the public in every political system; the effects of prescribed drugs and substance abuse on leadership behaviour; the conflicted role and ethical dilemmas of physicians who care for the powerful; and how the demands and privileges of high office compromise the quality of medical care. In closed societies where there is no clear mechanism of succession  say the authors  the ailing or ageing leader and his close advisers can become locked in a fatal embrace  each dependent upon the other for survival; a captive king and his captive court. In the absence of clear rules for determining when a leader is disabled and should be replaced and how a successor will be chosen  illness in high office can be highly destabilizing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44960919650357,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300056834","price":94.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300056839.jpg?v=1770393675","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/when-illness-strikes-the-leader-the-dilemma-of-the-captive-king","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}