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In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on ten of the accused. In December 1948, five of these defendants were hanged, while four received sentences of life in prison. The tenth was a brilliant philosopher-patriot named Okawa Shumei. His story proved strangest of all. Among all the political and military leaders on trial, Okawa was the lone civilian. In the years leading up to World War II, he had outlined a divine mission for Japan to lead Asia against the West, prophesized a great clash with the United States, planned coups d'etat with military rebels, and financed the assassination of Japan's prime minister. Beyond "all vestiges of doubt," concluded a classified American intelligence report, "Okawa moved in the best circles of nationalist intrigue." Okawa's guilt as a conspirator appeared straightforward. But on the first day of the Tokyo trial, he made headlines around the world by slapping star defendant and wartime prime minister Tojo Hideki on the head. Had Okawa lost his sanity? Or was he faking madness to avoid a grim punishment? A U.S. Army psychiatrist stationed in occupied Japan, Major Daniel Jaffe-the author's grandfather-was assigned to determine Okawa's ability to stand trial, and thus his fate. Jaffe was no stranger to madness. He had seen it his whole life: in his mother, as a boy in Brooklyn; in soldiers, on the battlefields of Europe. Now his seasoned eye faced the ultimate test. If Jaffe deemed Okawa sane, the war crimes suspect might be hanged. But if Jaffe found Okawa insane, the philosopher patriot might escape justice for his role in promoting Japan's wartime aggression. Meticulously researched, A Curious Madness is both expansive in scope and vivid in detail. As the story pushes both Jaffe and Okawa toward their postwar confrontation, it explores such diverse topics as the roots of belligerent Japanese nationalism, the development of combat psychiatry during World War II, and the complex nature of postwar justice. Eric Jaffe is at his best in this suspenseful and engrossing historical narrative of the fateful intertwining of two men on different sides of the war and the world and the question of insanity.
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9781451612059 | Scribner, January 14, 2014, cover price $30.00
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9781451612110 | Reprint edition (Scribner, January 30, 2016), cover price $19.99
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9781452648903 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, January 20, 2014), cover price $83.99 | About this edition: In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity.
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9781612059266 | Routledge, December 17, 2015, cover price $49.95
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9781612059259 | Paradigm Pub, February 27, 2015, cover price $155.00
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9780440145851, titled "Cross Country" | Reissue edition (Dell Pub Co, March 1, 1984), cover price $3.50 | also contains Cross Country
Impromptu Man: J.l. Moreno and the Origins of Psychodrama, Encounter Culture, and the Social Network
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9781934137840 | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, October 14, 2014, cover price $18.95
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9781594203930 | 1 edition (Penguin Pr, August 1, 2013), cover price $25.95
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9780143125716 | Penguin USA, July 29, 2014, cover price $16.00
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9781416590767 | 1 edition (Free Pr, June 14, 2011), cover price $30.00
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9781416590781 | Free Pr, April 19, 2014, cover price $26.99
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9781416597186 | Free Pr, May 3, 2011, cover price $18.99
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9781452618906 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, January 20, 2014), cover price $39.99
9781452668901 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, January 20, 2014), cover price $29.99
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9781594485176 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, May 3, 2011), cover price $16.00
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9780307277893 | Vintage Books, January 11, 2011, cover price $14.95
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9780791080276 | Chelsea House Pub, September 1, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Profiles the woman and her work whose studies provided insight into death and dying, and started the hospice movement in the United States.
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9780070358492, titled "Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist" | McGraw-Hill, September 1, 1985, cover price $1.98
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9780070358508 | McGraw-Hill Book Co, November 1, 1986, cover price $4.95
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9780440145851 | Reissue edition (Dell Pub Co, March 1, 1984), cover price $3.50 | also contains A Model of Prevention: Life Lessons
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