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Character assassination throughout the ages
Abstract
Using a variety of cases from history and today's life, the book examines character attackers targeting the private lives, behavior, values, and identity of their victims. Numerous historical examples show that character assassination has always been a very effective weapon to win political battles or settle personal scores.
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how political psychologists can assist historians
pp.15-33
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344168_2Cicero as target
pp.37-57
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344168_3a case of character assassination?
pp.59-81
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344168_4character assassination and imperial investiture
pp.83-100
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344168_5muhammad at the hands of his earliest Christian biographers in the West
pp.105-120
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344168_6pp.121-134
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344168_7youth (late fourteenth to early fifteenth century)
pp.135-148
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344168_8defamation of the pope in early Lutheran flugschriften
pp.153-171
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344168_9political character assassination and purging in the French revolution
pp.173-190
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344168_10the character assassination of the dutch statesman Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761–1825)
pp.191-209
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344168_11a case of character assassination in Chinese politics in the 1950s
pp.237-252
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344168_13the case of Václav Havel
pp.253-269
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344168_14pp.275-278
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344168_15Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2014
Pages: 283
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-48512-3
ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-34416-8
Full citation:
Icks Martijn, Shiraev Eric (2014) Character assassination throughout the ages. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.