Marcos de Brum Lopes on Zachary Jonathan Jacobson’s *On Nixon’s Madness: An Emotional History*

A couple of weeks ago, during a candid conversation with a dear friend of mine, Zachary J. Jacobson’s book on Nixon’s Madness came up. Politics and art are the main themes we usually talk about. Coming from different countries and cultures (Brazil and the US, for instance), we look for qualified insights on what’s happening in each other’s local contexts. My friend was intrigued by the book’s title. – “Huh, interesting approach”, he said, “I might read it”. – “It’s a psycho-history”, I told him, literally quoting how Jacobson himself describes his own work (p. 4). – “Psycho-history lol” was Read more