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...Search. But some personalities are evidently too tantalizing to be resisted. Abrahamsen's book follows others on the former President: M.I.T. Historian Bruce Mazlish's In Search of Nixon and Duke Political Scientist James David Barber's The Presidential Character. Abrahamsen, 73, who was born in Norway and immigrated to the U.S. in 1940, is an acknowledged expert on criminal behavior. He has also written two other psychobiographies, on a turn-of-the-century Viennese anti-Semite and on Lee Harvey Oswald. In preparing his Nixonalysis, Abrahamsen interviewed dozens of people, including several Nixon relatives...
Nixon vs. Nixon has won praise, particularly from those involved in similar work. It is "a good, sound portrait," says Lloyd deMause, editor of the four-year-old Journal of Psychohistory. Duke's Barber thinks that Abrahamsen has shown "how far psychoanalytic interpretations can help in understanding" Nixon...
Whatever the intellectual level of Carter's involve-the-people campaign, its success has not shaken many Congressmen. "We admire a virtuoso performance when we see one," said Republican Representative Barber Conable of New York State. "We sure know he can frost a cake. The question is whether he knows how to bake one. When the real crunch comes-energy, trade, cutting the budget-that's when we'll see whether Carter can turn his popularity into votes up here...
Williams, who has held the directorship for ten years, "was the turning point in terms of the Peabody Museum," Russel J. Barber, a teaching fellow of North American archeological studies, said yesterday...
...Barber added that Williams stabilized finances, improved laboratories, and established the Tozzer Library. The library's anthropological collection is one of the largest in the United States...