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Author Goertzel, Ted George.

Title Turncoats & true believers : the dynamics of political belief and disillusionment / Ted Goertzel.

Publication Info. Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1992.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  320.019 G597T    Check Shelf
Description 428 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Foreword / Dennis Wrong -- Ch. 1. Confessions of a Turncoat and Remembrance of a True Believer -- Ch. 2. Ideologies as Life Scripts -- Ch. 3. Survival and Commitment: Bertrand Russell and Woodrow Wilson -- Ch. 4. The Dynamics of Skepticism: Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill -- Ch. 5. The Ideological Group -- Ch. 6. The Utopians -- Ch. 7. The Hawks -- Ch. 8. The Doves -- Ch. 9. Protestors and Authoritarians: Trotsky and Stalin -- Ch. 10. The God that Failed: Mourning the Loss of Ideological Belief -- Ch. 11. The Sixties: Failure of a Generation? -- Ch. 12. Feminists and Antifeminists -- Ch. 13. Linus Pauling: From Eminent Scientist to True Believer -- Ch. 14. Holocaust and Genocide Revisionism: Skepticism as Denial -- Ch. 15. Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution: Aging Narcissism and Unyielding Leninism -- Ch. 16. Bush and Gorbachev: Visions of the Future or a Future without Vision? -- Ch. 17. Conclusions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-412) and index.
Subject Psychology -- Biographical methods.
Ideology -- Psychological aspects.
Alienation (Social psychology)
Political psychology.
Added Title Turncoats and true believers.
ISBN 0879757558 (acid-free paper) : $27.95
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