Stable Geniuses? The Mental States of Nixon and Trump
Venue: The Courthouse - Meath County Council Stage
Robbyn Swan is co-author, with her husband Anthony Summers, of five non-fiction works. The Eleventh Day, on the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History and won the prestigious Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. They and their book Looking for Madeleine feature in the landmark Netflix series The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. In The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon, Summers and Swan exposed the cynical manipulation of the 1968 Vietnam peace talks that eased Nixon’s path to the Presidency. Nixon has often been described as an ‘evil genius’, while Donald Trump is a self-styled ‘stable genius’. Having revealed Nixon’s White House-era abuse of alcohol and drugs, as well as his hidden dependence on a psychotherapist, Robbyn is well placed to compare the two leaders.
