Self-effacing and self-defeating leadership: Adlai E. Stevenson

Political Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 845-874

  Cowden, Jonathan A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Adlai Stevenson; Neo Freudian analysis; Neurosis; Psychobiography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033263024     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00170     Document Type: Article

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