A First-Rate MadnessBy: Nassir Ghaemi The New York Times bestseller A glistening psychological history, faceted largely by the biographies of eight famous leaders . . . The Boston Globe A provocative thesis . . . Ghaemis book deserves high marks for original thinking. The Washington Post Provocative, fascinating. Salon. com Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and