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The Guardian on America’s Obsessives

Guardian on America’s Obsessives      

Wired Story on Musk, Mayer, Brin, etc as Obsessives

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/labor-day-special-what-dewy-can-tell-us-about-brin-mayer-musk-and-other-obsessive-innovators/  

Q and A with Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-country-built-by-obsessives

Charles Lindbergh–my NYTimes piece on his skill as a memoirist

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/books/review/flight-logs.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Madness and Greatness in Slate

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/06/business_success_from_mental_illness_steve_jobs_henry_heinz_and_est_e_lauder.html

Read the Prologue from America’s Obsessives!

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My Daily Beast Story on Lindbergh’s Secret Mistresses

www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/30/charles-lindbergh-s-secret-german-mistresses-in-truth-and-fiction.html

Psychiatric News Story on My Work as a Biographer

I was recently asked by Psychiatric News,  the newspaper published by the American Psychiatric Association, to explain my ideas about the link between character pathology and achievement:     http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsArticle.aspx?articleid=1555744